Topic: [SOLVED]Windows and Gparted disagree on /dev/hda1 (C:) size --Help
I seem to have a problem where windows thinks my C: (XP system) partition is 25Gib and Gparted think it is 27.34Gib.
Here is the results from a current fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf868f868
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3569 28667961 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3570 7294 29921062+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3571 3701 1052257+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 3702 5224 12233466 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 5225 5355 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 5356 5486 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 5487 5617 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 5618 5650 265041 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 5651 5781 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 5782 6304 4200966 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 6305 6794 3935893+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 6958 6990 265041 83 LinuxIn December 08 I had the following fdisk saved.
linux:/home/linux # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf868f868
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5222 41945683+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5223 7296 16659405 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 5223 5223 8001 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 5224 5224 8001 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 5225 5355 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 5356 5486 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 5487 5617 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 5618 5650 265041 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 5651 5781 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 5782 6304 4200966 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 6305 6794 3935893+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 6795 6826 257008+ 83 LinuxI can't account for the unallocated space between /dev/sda13 and /dev/sda14, but /dev/sda14 is /var for OpenSuse 11.1.
Window Reports the following sizes for c:, p:, and u: through the Disk Properties and Chkdsk (I added calculations for Kib, Mib, and Gib based on byte counts)
c: Capacity
26,847,277,056 Bytes
26847277056 Bytes
26218044 Kib
25603.55859375 Mib
25.003475189208984 Gib
25.0 GB
Chkdsk Capacity
26218044 KB
P: Capacity
1,077,506,048 Bytes
1077506048 Bytes
1052252 Kib
1027.58984375 Mib
1.0035057067871094 Gib
1.00 GB
Chkdsk Capacity
1052252 KB
U: 12,527,063,040 Bytes
12527063040 Bytes
12233460 Kib
11946.73828125 Mib
11.666736602783203 Gib
11.6 GB
Chkdsk Capacity
12233460 KB I was following a process of shrinking C: and growing P: and U: when an error. Error was
Grow /dev/hda1 from 25.00 GiB to 27.34 Gib. I looked for more details but didn't see anything but that error.
The procedure I followed to get to this point was to shrink C: by 15Gib.
Change the extended partition to include the 15Gib.
Move P: to the beginning to the extended partition again.
Resize P to be 1Gib.
Move U: to the start of the unallocated space grow to take remaining 14Gib.
I took all these steps one at a time and each succeeded. I then attempted to boot into safe mode with windows.
The boot paused when loading the kernel and then restarted. I figured the 700 something Mib free space I left in the partition was inadequate so I attempted to get more space for c: temporarily. I really didn't care to be exact because I knew that I was going to move file to U and then resize C, P, and U again until I was through moving files off C:. I also had backups in Norton Ghost, but I didn't want to use backups because I'd have to put the partitions back to the sizes they were to do the restore.
At that point I shrunk and moved U to 11.67Gib so that the free space was before the partition.
I then moved P to be right before U with the free space before it.
I then moved the free space out of the extended partition.
At that point I attempted to grow /dev/hda1 (C:) from 25.00 GiB to 27.34 Gib.
The previous steps I took to make the space all worked sucessfully. I was able to boot into safe mode even though I had the error and was able to chkdsk /r the P: and U: partitions which had been resized. I had to reboot to chkdsk /r /f C:. Near the end of the process chkdsk started to post the same error for every cluster. The message went something like error unable to reallocate bad cluster no more room on disk for cluster #... I saw hundreds off these roll by before noticed that the cluster numbers were increasing and seemed to have potentially gone beyond the size of the partition. I eventually decided to power off the machine.
While exploring what to do next, I booted into OpenSuse 11.1 (I also have OpenSuse 11.0) and tried a few things. One of the things I tried was ntfsfix /dev/sda1. I also forced a mount of C: when I noticed that it wasn't mounted because the chkdsk had failed and it was considered dirty. I was able to browse it fine. I eventually ran a chkdsk from a Vista-Recovery CD which worked. I also ran a chkdsk accidentally by booting XP which fixed some problems very early in the boot process and then gave me a windows login. I shutdown and rebooted into safemode and proceeded to discover that for some reason my system was now ok.
After running for a few days I finally noticed the anomalies in the Gib data between the linux gparted and chkdsk. I need to fix the partition table or whatever is wrong because I'm not finished changing my partitions. I would appreciate some direction on how to resolve where the problem is and how to fix it.
I have some current screen pictures for Gparted and Windows Disk Management if it would help. There is an unallocated 7.84Mib area immediatly following the extended partition which I didn't intend to be there.