-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Dinbandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mel Burslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Gparted says there are bad sectors, WIN chkdsk says No > Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:15:47 -0500 > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 11:32 -0800, Mel Burslan wrote: > > 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). > > You are correct-- you are not the only one. Unless that is, there really > is something wrong with my hard drive. Although I am doubtful of that, > since Windows CHKDSK utility says the disk is fine. > > But the question now is: what to do now? Were you ultimately able to > shrink your disk? > > Actually, with Vista you shouldn't have this problem. Perhaps you > already know, that Vista itself has a utility which will shrink its own > partition size for you. I did that with one vista machine, and it worked > fine. Whereas XP does not have the facility, so I am forced to use a > utility like gparted. > > But with XP....I am at a loss as to what to do. > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > ***************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > > bug-parted mailing list > > bug-parted@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
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