1 Topic by Tyler.Estes

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Topic: Resizing Failed

Hello.
I have two hardrives. One is an 80 internal the other a 465 external. Both equally fast. I just want to resize my internal to around 30 gigs or so. because my external apparently has "bad sectors". But when i try to rezize GParted says "Nothing To Do". It will perform simulations but when it gets to the actually re size it displays that message.
Any help would be amazing.
Thank You.

2 Reply by cmdr

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Re: Resizing Failed

Hello Tyler.Estes,
would you please give us the print-out of "Terminal" command
fdisk -lu
(l is lower-case L)
and - if possible - file "gparted-details.htm", which contains the log of "GParted", when you try to resize your drive in vain ?

Regards
cmdr

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Re: Resizing Failed

I have two hardrives. One is an 80 internal the other a 465 external. Both equally fast. I just want to resize my internal to around 30 gigs or so. because my external apparently has "bad sectors". But when i try to rezize GParted says "Nothing To Do". It will perform simulations but when it gets to the actually re size it displays that message.

External USB or firewire connected drives are always slower than internal drives (IDE or SATA).

How are you sure that the external drive contains bad sectors? Did you make any special test for this? Even a bad cable can be source of problems.

Be sure that you have enough free space in the drive to resize. Keep at least 10-15% free space after resizing. Be aware of the difference of the decimal value 80 GB (80 billions of bytes) from the binary value of the drive capacity, often mesures in the Linux world as GiB (1 GiB = 1024x1024x1024 bytes, giving a number about 7-8% smaller). So, a typical 80 GB drive contains usually something like 74.5 GiB.

In some cases, resizing a ntfs partition can fail probably due to the position of the "master file table". This is a known issue concerning the ntfsresize software, the tool that performs the resizing operation. In these cases, we can try to resize the partition in several steps. (You don't mention anyware ntfs, however I notice this because it occurs sometimes).

Of course, the output of the 'fdisk -lu' command gives useful information as well as gparted-details.htm.

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