ntfs resize error

vizv · 03-08-2006, 10:18 PM

Hi everyone.

Whenever I boot into Mandriva and select to "Resize Windows Partitions" I get an error that ntfs resize has failed. I also tried using gparted to resize and I still could not. Any ideas as to why I can't resize? I'm doing chkdsk right now but I am sure there are no errors. It's an NTFS 55GB Drive, 8 of which is taken up. Thanks in advance.

syg00 · 03-08-2006, 10:30 PM

Probably bad or duplicate pointers. If you had run "ntfresize -i" from command line you would have seen the messages - one of the inherent problems of GUI front-ends.
"chkdsk /f" should clean them up o.k. - when that's finished try again.

vizv · 03-08-2006, 11:14 PM

Hmm I just did chkdsk and it did not report any errors. It seems as though somehow the drive is "locked" as in I can't edit it at all.

igu · 04-04-2006, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

If you had run "ntfresize -i" from command line you would have seen the messages - one of the inherent problems of GUI front-ends.
"chkdsk /f" should clean them up o.k. - when that's finished try again.

Another common reason if the disk has bad sectors (unrepairable hardware damage on the disk surface). In this case ntfsresize requires the --bad-sectors option but no GUI front-ends implemented this support.