1 Topic by kouye

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Topic: Unsuccessful in increasing size of an NTFS Windows partition

Hi,
I have a hard drive with 2 NTFS partition : one partition with Windows XP (24,85 Go), one partition with Windows Vista (49,68 Go). I want to delete the Windows Vista partition and increase the size of the XP partition to fit the entire disk.
I booted to a GParted Live disk and tried deleting the Vista partition. That went OK. I tried increasing the size of the XP partion. I ended up with an indication of a partition sized 74,53 Go, but when I reboot back to Windows, the partition is recognized with its previous size of 24,85 Go. When I reboot back into GParted, I get the partition with its 74,53 Go size.
Any clue why the resize is not recognize by Windows ? I remember reading something about extended NTFS partions not being resizable (at least not increased) but I'm not sure this is related.
Thanks.

2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: Unsuccessful in increasing size of an NTFS Windows partition

It is possible that the partition size increase succeeded, but the file system size increase failed.

If this is the case, you can fix it by booting the GParted Live CD, and then selecting the "Check" operation for the problem NTFS file system.  This will try to grow the NTFS file system to match the size of the partition.

3 Reply by kouye

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Re: Unsuccessful in increasing size of an NTFS Windows partition

OK, I'll give it a try.
Thanks.

4 Reply by iam8up

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Re: Unsuccessful in increasing size of an NTFS Windows partition

Doing the check in the drop down menu worked for me.  I had the exact same issue going from a 4GB to 10GB partition.

Thanks for the suggestion gedakc!