1 Topic by zephyr96

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Topic: repartition does not show accual size.

I a xp (NTFS) drive that had 4 partitions on it. I used the latest live cd and deleted 3 of the partitions and expanded the boot partition so it was using the full 80 gigs. Gparted now sees it as a 80 gig partition and so does windows disc manager. However windows itself only sees it as a 10 gig drive with 248mb of space. (they original boot partition was only 10gig) Windows is still saying "low virtual memory" basicly I need more space. I load Gparted live cd again and it shows I have an 80 gig partition. What am I doing wrong and what do I need to do to fix this?

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Re: repartition does not show accual size.

Obviously, the partition is really 80GiB, but the filesystem remains 10GiB. It happens sometimes with any resizing software. You don't write if there was any message on the resizing operation.

Try to run chkdsk /f from the windows command prompt, or chkdsk /p from the recovery console command line (booting from the installation cd). This won't solve the problem but it could fix any errors in the filesystem. Then, you can retry with Gparted, resizing the partition back to the original size, reboot 2-3 times into windows, and after this resize again the the full disk space (and reboot again 2-3 times into windows).

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***