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Topic: Issue growing a partition

I have used GPARTED without issue before but this has me stumped.  I tried to grow a a partition on an XP machine formatted NTFS.  The original partition was a small part of the drive and the rest was not allocated.  When I tried to complete the operation I got an error message but it gave no useful information.  Restarting GPARTED showed the partition had been re-sized but Windows XP did not see the change.  I tried to make another small change in the partition size with the same result.  Windows still does not not see any change to the drive and I get and error with no details.

Any  ideas?
Thanks,
Mike

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Re: Issue growing a partition

Maybe use M$ recovery options (1st part only) boot into windows part & run FixMbr, or FixBoot? Review other places for more specific details of the procedures & steps! BU all M$ data 1st just in case. I do not like the sound of this one!

mike56 wrote:

snpd/EDTD me stumped, tried to grow a a partition on an XP machine formatted NTFS.  original partition was a small part and the rest was not allocated.  error message but it gave no useful information.  Restarting GPARTED showed the partition had been re-sized but Windows XP did not see the change.  I tried to make another small change in the partition size with the same result. 
M$ windows still does not not see any change to the drive and I get and error with no details.

Not sure, just an idea. What do tools such as fdisk -l, or sfdisk show? {R U familair w/ ?}
Or maybe even Ranish Partition Manager all avail on SysRescCD 1.0.1.

MIGHT consider running manufacturer HW diagnostics. What other OS ever been on this HD ?*?

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Re: Issue growing a partition

Windows disk magament is very confused.  The drive shows to be only the original size in the top pane but the bottom pane shows the full drive size and "Healthy".  I backed up before I made this change so that should not be a problem.  Also I tried a chkdsk on reboot and fix mdbr with no change.  The machine seems to work fine. (For  now)

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Re: Issue growing a partition

fixmbr wouldn't have any effect, because fixes the bootloader, in the case it is broken.

I don't know what this message told nor the gparted version number used, but I think it is a case where the partition was resized but the filesystem in it stayed the same. This happens sometimes, with any resize program.

If Gparted shows the partition covering the entire hard disk space, this means that the partition is really resized. The windows explorer reports the filesystem size. The partition size is shown in the graph at the bottom part on the screen in windows disk management.

I would advice to resize the partition back to the original size and then repeat the operation. Be sure to use a new Gparted version, not any old one.
After each resize, please remember to reboot into windows for 2-3 times at least, waiting east time for the full boot process to be finished.

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