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Topic: Error trying to resize an NTFS partition.

Hi. I wonder if somebody could help me with this. I'm using the latest GParted livecd version. I have an 80GB Seagate hard drive. It has a NTFS boot partition with Windows XP on it that takes half of this hard drive (40GB) and the remaining space is not partitioned. I am trying to resize this partition as to make it occupy the entire hard drive space (80GB). When I boot up the live CD there is a little exclamation mark icon on my NTFS partition but I'm not sure what that means. Everytime I select the partition, resize it and as soon as I click apply, I get an error message that says "An error occurred while applying the operations". When I look on details it says: "Check filesystem on /dev/hda1 for errors and (if possible) fix them".

Well I've already tried using Windows error-checking tool (former scandisk), tried using the chkdsk /f command but none of these finds any errors. I then used PerfectDisk 8 to defrag this partition using smartplacement defragmantation. As it turns out the partition was badly fragmented, but after running perfectdisk it is not anymore. Even after trying these things I still get that exclamation mark and the error message when I try to resize that partition.

Any ideas of what I could try next?

Thanks.

2 Reply by class413

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Re: Error trying to resize an NTFS partition.

You can try to run the chkdsk /f command from the "recovery console", booting from the xp installation cd. This is a command line mode. There is also the "chkdsk /p" option, from the recovery console only.
Try to temporarily disable the virtual memory function in windows as well as other running programs like antivirus or any real time scanner or compression tool. Remember to shut down windows properly.

Another command that helped many users is "ntfsfix". You can run it in a terminal window from the GParted livecd. It checks and fixes some common ntfs errors.

The latest livecd is 0.3.7-7. You can even try older versions. It happens that an older version from the 0.3.4-x series works better on some systems.

(Topic moved to the Live Media section)

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