Gparted - external hard disk partitioning error (ntfs)
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Do it it on Windows.
If you don't have access to a Windows systems you won't be able to repair NTFS in all likelihood - doesn't sound like a good idea.
I've actually tried that already using Windows's default Disk Management utility. I'm using XP btw, and it didn't work. Some errors were encountered. But let me try it again and see what happens. Thanks.
Well, here's what happened. All along, I was trying to distribute the capacity to almost equal sizes on 3 partitions, like 100gb + 100gb + remaining. That didn't work.
However (using Gparted still), it was able to successfully make 2 NTFS partitions (146gb + 151gb). Did the partition size really have any bearing with this?
The 151gb partition had some errors though, which was fixed by chkdsk /f as instructed by Gparted. I think this issue is resolved. Though I'd like to know what might have gone wrong before. Thanks.
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