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Topic: Can't shrink ntfs

I have got a seagate 335 GB sata hardrive with XP on it and I want to shrink C to 200 GB to install openSuse 86_64.

Gparted states that my hardrive has at least one bad sector;

Seatools ran a two hour check and reported no faults,

Speedfan and Smart reported no faults,

Checkdisk ran on startup from windows as chkdsk/f/r reported no faults.

So I downloaded another copy of Gparted and the same.

In the advice given it states --bad-sectors should be chosen in options; but no such option and it wouldn't recognise the command in terminal.


How do I fix this; I don't understand  especially since my external hardrive is second hand and it did partition and resize that with 32Mb of bad sectors also on ntfs.:(

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Re: Can't shrink ntfs

Be sure to use the latest GParted version. I remember that some older versions (I think 0.3.4-x) gave false warning about bad sectors.

Furthermore, if you are sure that the drive is good, you can use the ntfsresize tool directly from the command line (in the terminal window), with the parameter -b to ignore bad sector warnings.
You can find information about the 'ntfsresize' command at the man page:
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsresize.8.html

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

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Re: Can't shrink ntfs

Thankyou,