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Topic: Failed Partitioning

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1 installed new HD
2. Inserted gparted live CD and partitioned (3) partitions. One ntfs, and 2 ext 3.
3. Placed XP disk and it recognized the ntfs and installed. Near end it reported a corrupt file. I exercised the only option that I could think of and that was to restore (4 disks) Great however xp is consuming the entire 80 GB.
4. Inserted live CD again and I cannot seem to be able to resize. I have tried both one I curned and a commercial produced one.
Please advise.

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Re: Failed Partitioning

Do you get any error message? Could you post the gparted detail file, please?

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

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Re: Failed Partitioning

Do you get any error message? Could you post the gparted detail file, please? Be advised that it would allow me to get to the resize portion of process however complete and absolute inability to resize. I tried other Linux Live CD in hopes of an opportunity to create a partition to no avail. I did solve it and I post iit here merely as an FYI.
I had read somewhere software like gparted had limitations if faced with hard drive containing some types of errors. So going with that assumption I scheduled the 5 stage volume check, then went to run did a sfc /runnow, finally a defrag and gparted became fully functional at the resize phase.

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Re: Failed Partitioning

Yes, it is true that GParted doesn't try to make any modification on a partition that is reported faulty, because this could make further damage.
In some cases it is possible to run the specific tools from the command line, using some parameters to overcome the checks. Nevertheless this could be somehow risky, so it is not accessible through the GParted graphical interface.

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