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Topic: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!

I seem to be suffering from the same issue as several others here.   I, however, have not been able to figure out what edits are to be made to the tables by myself.  I have attached specifics as the the tracking thread requests.  Help here is GREATLY appreciated since I became complacent after a great many issue-free uses of gparted and didn't do a backup.  sad

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2a94 … d091ba63d2


Again, many thanks in advance.

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Re: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!

refinished wrote:

I seem to be suffering from the same issue as several others here.   I, however, have not been able to figure out what edits are to be made to the tables by myself.  I have attached specifics as the the tracking thread requests.  Help here is GREATLY appreciated since I became complacent after a great many issue-free uses of gparted and didn't do a backup.  sad

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2a94 … d091ba63d2


Again, many thanks in advance.


EDIT: This has been resolved with testdisk with some loss of data (the second partition of my drive).  This affected parted was run from Knoppix 6.2, FWIW.

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Re: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!

Thank you for posting your experience, and how you solved the problem.  It is unfortunate that you lost data.  Usually we can just edit the MBR or the NTFS PBR to fix this situation with no data loss.