Enlarging Windows XP Partition Error

Hi!

Just copy the text of the error message here, and put "code" tags around it. The result would then look like (the underlines "_" must not be included in your posting)

[_code_]beginning of your error message
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...
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end of your error message[_/code_]

Additionlally, many problems that occur when resizing NTFS partitions can be solved by
1. defragmenting the partition;
2. running chkdsk /f on that partition two or three times from the Windows command line (the system will ask if it is OK to run the test upon the bext reboot. Accept this, and reboot immediately).

Hi!

This error log states that GParted could not access several sectors on your hard drive due to I/O errors. This could mean that
- the file system is damaged - running chkdsk /f repeatedly should fix this;
- your hard drive is bad - check it using the utilities provided by your hard drive's manufacturer (or with Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test or Seagate's SeaTools for DOS if "your" manufacturer does not offer such a tool);
- GParted has a problem with your hard drive or controller - in this case, waiting for the next GParted Live release could help, as well as trying the PartedMagic LiveCD could (PartedMagic is another project focusing on hard drive partitioning, and it also uses GParted as the main workhorse - but since the PartedMagic LiveCD is built upon a different Linux distro than the GParted LiveCD, it might work on hardware where the GParted Live media won't function properly and vice versa).

I see that you use version 0.3.5, that is somehow old. Could you try the latest livecd, please? (latest stable version is 0.4.1-2). Sometimes we have reports on bad sectors, that don't appear with newer versions of the software.

Did you use the GParted livecd or GParted from within some other cd, like any Linux install cd? (I think Ubuntu 8.04 cd contained GParted 0.3.5)

Try to resize the partition in more steps.

Sometimes a damaged data cable can cause communication problems between the hard drive and the computer.

And, of course, a hard drive problem couldn't be excluded. So backup, backup, backup

GParted checks the partition first. It doesn't proceed in case of any problem detection. Problems can affect the filesystem, the disk surface, or both.

You can try another option, the command
chkdsk /f /r
It is perhaps better to run it from the safe mode. These 2 options
/f /r
force the command to check both the filesystem and the disk surface, and eventually recover lost data. It takes much longer to finish.

You could make a screenshot from the GParted screen, to show the exact partition state, and post here the output from the command
fdisk -l
(from the terminal window), that give useful details. It is possible that there is something wrong in the partition table.

Finally, if you are sure that the drive is good, you can even try ntfsresize from the command line, using parameters that ignore the check results.

(Topic moved to the live media section)

Hello,
due to your screenshot, you use TWO bootflags. Since only Windows depends on ONE bootflag, I would remove the second bootflag on /dev/sdb5, the Linux volume in extended partition, or, if you use a Linux Bootmanager like GRUB to start Linux AND Windows, remove both bootflags.

Furthermore, I would align the start of the extended partition to a cylinder border by shrinking it from the lower (left) border, thus adding the 7.84 MiB unallocated space inside the extended partition to the unallocated space outside.

Regards
cmdr