1 Topic by vindi (edited by vindi 2009-05-13 23:18:23)

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Topic: Minimum partition size is the same as max size in Gparted

Hi,

I am a first-time user of Gparted. I would like to have a dual-boot on my hard drive, for both Windows (it's Winxp sp3 and latest Ubuntu). The PC has only one HD, 120Gb. It's not brand new, as you've probably already guessed. The goal is to split its hard drive 90/20 between Windows and Linux.

Currently, I have 2 partitions, drive C: 109GB and drive D: 2GB. So, obviously I should make C: smaller and D: larger. I have about 40GB of free space on D: but when I try to reduce the partition's size, it wont let me.

When I click on Resize/Move, it shows me Minumum Size is equal to maximum size.
Which makes resizing of the partition almost worthless. What should I do reduce minumum size? It's my understanding that disk defragmentation is not going to help, correct?

Any help is very appreciated.
Here's a picture also. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/LG … directlink

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Re: Minimum partition size is the same as max size in Gparted

The picture shows an exclamation mark beside the /dev/sda1 partition.  This indicates that GParted experienced some problem when trying to read the partition.

If you select the partition and choose Partition -> Information, a window will pop up with details about the problem.

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Re: Minimum partition size is the same as max size in Gparted

Indeed...
Here's a picture.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1u … directlink

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Re: Minimum partition size is the same as max size in Gparted

From the picture it appears that there is some inconsistency in the NTFS file system.

To fix this problem I suggest you boot into windows, open a command prompt and issue the command:

     chkdsk /f /c

You may need to boot back into windows twice more to permit windows to fix the file system.