I have had the same exact problem with a brand new Compaq laptop I have purchased with Vista Home Ultimate edition loaded on it. I have reported here then but never received a response to it.
Now that I see your message, I feel better not being the one, who is singled out and since your OS is XP, I am also glad to know that, this problem is not related to Redmond's finest OS called VISTA (=crap in my opinion). > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Gparted says there are bad sectors, WIN chkdsk says No (Dinbandhu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:02:32 -0500 > From: Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Gparted says there are bad sectors, WIN chkdsk says No > To: bug-parted@gnu.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > I just purchased a 3 year-old laptop (Dell Latitude D400) which has XP > on it. I want to set up a dual boot with XP and Gutsy. I have a recent > Parted Magic live cd so I booted up with that to downsize the XP > partition and free up space for Gutsy. Once Parted Magic booted up, I > opened Gparted to downsize the XP partition. But Gparted refused to > allow a resizing of the partition because it said it found at least 1 > bad sector on the disk. It further said I should run 'chkdsk /f /r' in > Windows and reboot it twice. It said that after that, I could resize > NTFS safely by additionally using the "bad-sectors option" of > ntfsresize. > > So I booted into XP to run chkdsk in the command line. Although I had no > other programs running, the chkdsk utility told me it would only run on > reboot because there were other utilities running. So I rebooted the > computer, Chkdsk ran, and after checking the drive, said the disk was > perfectly fine i.e. no bad sectors. I rebooted the computer twice, then > went back into Parted Magic, and Gparted still said it found at least 1 > bad sector on the disk and refused to resize. I went back to XP and ran > chkdsk again, and again it found no bad sectors. Again I went into > Gparted, and again it said it found at least 1 bad sector. So I don't > know whether there is really a bad sector or not, and furthermore > Gparted will not allow me to downsize the XP partition. > > (1) Which utility is wrong: CHKDSK or Gparted? Could this discrepancy > represent a bug in Gparted? > > How can I be confirmed if there really is a bad sector or not? > > (2) If there is no bad sector and Gparted is incorrect, then how can I > get Gparted to downsize the ntfs partition? > > (The "ntfsresize" utility is not so easy to use as gparted, because > "ntfsresize" only shrinks the file system, not the partition. Then you > have to use fdisk to shrink the partition and you have to match the size > of the partition to the size of the file system, otherwise it won't > work.) > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > bug-parted mailing list > bug-parted@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted > > > End of bug-parted Digest, Vol 62, Issue 3 > ***************************************** >
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