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Topic: failed to fork (cannot allocate memory)

My brother's computer won't boot. He resized a partition using Partition Magic (an NTFS partition), so I thought of using Gparted to find out what went wrong.

He has two partitions (both on NTFS), and both are signed with an exclamation mark in front. When I click for 'information', I get the information:
failed to fork (cannot allocate memory)
And:
Could not read file system.

He's running on a system with 312 MB of RAM, so I don't think that a memory shortage is a problem.

Do you guys have any idea what went wrong and/or how to fix it?

Unfortunately, it's imperative that the problem does get solved as the hard disk still contains important data he needs.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/ideas

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Re: failed to fork (cannot allocate memory)

What OS did he use ? NTFS covers W2K, XP, and Vista !

Larry
GParted-project Admin
Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)

3 (edited by BailHope 2007-04-08 23:39:43)

Re: failed to fork (cannot allocate memory)

Yes, he used Windows XP.

The problem has now been solved, however.

I just hooked his hard drive up into my computer, checked the disk via chkdsk but that didn't solve the problem so I took out all of the data he wanted, and then formatted the drive and it seems to be working properly again now.

I'm still curious as to what caused this problem however as I'm eager to learn. If anyone is still willing to explain, I would sure appreciate it ...