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Topic: Resizing windows partition doesnt work. (ERROR)

I recently installed ubuntu dual boot with windows. It all worked fine and good and I used gparted to do all the partitioning. Now I'm out of space on my ubuntu system and I am want to extend the ubuntu partition or make a new secondary linux partition. But I get an error when trying to resize to windows partition. Even tho it worked a couple weeks ago when i installed ubuntu.

Here is the error details:

GParted 1.0.0

configuration --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

libparted 3.3

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Device:    /dev/nvme0n1
Model:    SAMSUNG MZALQ128HBHQ-000L2
Serial:    none
Sector size:    512
Total sectors:    250069680
 
Heads:    255
Sectors/track:    2
Cylinders:    490332
 
Partition table:    gpt
 
Partition    Type    Start    End    Flags    Partition Name    File System    Label    Mount Point
/dev/nvme0n1p1    Primary    2048    534527    boot, esp    EFI system partition    fat32    SYSTEM_DRV    /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p2    Primary    534528    567295    msftres    Microsoft reserved partition    unknown        
/dev/nvme0n1p3    Primary    567296    175990783    msftdata    Basic data partition    ntfs        
/dev/nvme0n1p6    Primary    175990784    224819199            ext4        /
/dev/nvme0n1p7    Primary    224819200    246949887    swap        linux-swap        
/dev/nvme0n1p4    Primary    246949888    248018943    hidden, diag        ntfs        
/dev/nvme0n1p5    Primary    248020992    250068991    hidden, diag    Basic data partition    ntfs    WINRE_DRV    
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Shrink /dev/nvme0n1p3 from 83.65 GiB to 58.89 GiB  00:00:03    ( ERROR )
        
calibrate /dev/nvme0n1p3  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
        
path: /dev/nvme0n1p3 (partition)
start: 567296
end: 175990783
size: 175423488 (83.65 GiB)
check file system on /dev/nvme0n1p3 for errors and (if possible) fix them  00:00:03    ( ERROR )
        
ntfsresize -i -f -v '/dev/nvme0n1p3'  00:00:03    ( ERROR )
        
ntfsresize v2017.3.23AR.3 (libntfs-3g)
Device name : /dev/nvme0n1p3
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 89816822272 bytes (89817 MB)
Current device size: 89816825856 bytes (89817 MB)
Checking for bad sectors ...
Checking filesystem consistency ...
100.00 percent completed
Accounting clusters ...
Cluster accounting failed at 5771731 (0x5811d3): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 5772010 (0x5812ea): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 5772011 (0x5812eb): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 5772012 (0x5812ec): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 5772013 (0x5812ed): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 5772014 (0x5812ee): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Cluster accounting failed at 5772015 (0x5812ef): missing cluster in $Bitmap
Filesystem check failed! Totally 7 cluster accounting mismatches.
ERROR: NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
and will be made to NTFS by this software until it gets repaired.

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Re: Resizing windows partition doesnt work. (ERROR)

This portion of the error message says exactly what must be done to resolve the error:

ERROR: NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
and will be made to NTFS by this software until it gets repaired.

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Re: Resizing windows partition doesnt work. (ERROR)

mfleetwo wrote:

This portion of the error message says exactly what must be done to resolve the error:

ERROR: NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
and will be made to NTFS by this software until it gets repaired.

oh yeah right. but the issue that i forgot to mention is that the windows partition is running in windows 10 s mode and doesnt have admin permissions so i cant access the command prompt. is there any way to use the linux os to fix the window partition?

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Re: Resizing windows partition doesnt work. (ERROR)

As far as I know the only way to fix this is to run Windows chkdsk /f.

Maybe look into whether a Windows recovery drive can help.