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Topic: Bad sector detection

What method does Gparted use to determine if there are bad sectors on a drive?

I used Clonezilla to clone a drive with bad sectors onto a good drive. There are no bad sectors on the new drive, but Gparted says there are. How can I convince it it's wrong so I can resize a partition without having to learn how to use ntfsresize?

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Re: Bad sector detection

When clonezilla copies the partition, it copies the file system and all the metadata too.

Since the metadata in the NTFS file system tracks bad sectors, this bad sector list is also copied.  Hence the *copied* NTFS file system still thinks that it contains bad sectors.

You can reset the bad sector list with the ntfstruncate command.

The following post contains information on how to use ntfstruncate:
Resetting NTFS bad sectors list with ntfstruncate.

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Re: Bad sector detection

Thanks! I've already done essentially the same thing, with Dfsee, and it worked!

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Re: Bad sector detection

If the problem is solved, you can help others by editing the initial post and prefixing "SOLVED" in front of the title.  :-)