Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have
read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this
being the boot partition.
Here's the message I get when I run "chkdsk /f":
<output>
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) Y
This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts.
</output>
Yet when I restart, there is no unusual lag in the start up (which would
be necessary to scan an entire hard drive). I also continue getting the
message, upon running chkdsk without /f, that I need to do chkdsk /f. Weird.
-Pingveno
Grimaldy Soto wrote:
I suposed that if the partition is in use it's because is the main
partition, if not you can use the /x option for chkdsk if will force a
dismount, anyway why you no resize the partition with a partition
manager like partition magic.
Its better and faster and course lets dangerous that making inside from
linux.
On 11/12/05, *Pingveno* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new
laptop. As
recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using
Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about
accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's redundant).
After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I needed to use
chkdsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. Easy. Of course,
chkdsk alerted me that it can't modify a running NTFS system. Okay, so I
do what it recommends to me: let the checking be run after a reboot.
None of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight
problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any
tricks to con it into working?
-Pingveno
P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43
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