Re: Gparted says there are bad sectors, WIN chkdsk says No

[Dinbandhu]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 12:23 -0800, Mel Burslan wrote:
> I was never able to recover from it. So I abandoned partitioning that
> disk for the time being. I was not aware of Vista's own partitioning
> tool. How did you access it ? 

Have a look at the following link. It tells you exactly how to do it by
using Vista's own internal utility for shrinking its partition:

http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first


> On Jan 8, 2008 12:15 PM, Dinbandhu < address@hidden> wrote:
>         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. 
>         
>         
>         
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>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >         Today's Topics:
>         >
>         >           1. Gparted says there are bad sectors, WIN chkdsk
>         says No
>         >         (Dinbandhu) 
>         >
>         >
>         >
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>         >
>         >         Message: 1
>         >         Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:02:32 -0500
>         >         From: Dinbandhu < address@hidden>
>         >         Subject: Gparted says there are bad sectors, WIN
>         chkdsk says
>         >         No
>         >         To: address@hidden
>         >         Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>         >         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.)
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
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