Dazed_75 wrote:
Interesting that I've had nothing but good luck with gparted with only
two exceptions:
1-it is sometimes fussy about doing too many operations in a row so I
tend to apply changes without waiting to specify the whole chain of
changes I want to do, and
2-it, like many other utilities, does not do as well at recovering a
flash drive by re-formatting as Windows does. Or should I say that
formatting one in windows seems to do something extra that windows cares
about?
I have resized many NTFS partitions without resizing the NTFS file
system first. Perhaps that is because gparted actually requires and
uses the ntfsprogs to do that work. See:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
I believe Parted Magic (or one of the others) also announced a few
months ago that they now successfully resize the NTFS file system as
part of resizing the partition. I believe I posted that here back then.
My belief is that gparted won't do what he wants simply BECAUSE the file
system and the partition are not in sync and that may be BECAUSE he did
the manual resize of the file system first and then ran a tool that
expected to do that itself.
I think Larry's right on the money here. (fwiw)
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM, gk <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Ah, now we know.
XP does NOT have its own resizer, only Vista and W7.
BE warned if you resize an XP partition it takes hours and hours and
hours. So using a 3rd party resizer is necessary. I've never had
anything but problems with GParted, YMMV. Qtparted is good and there
are other 3rd party resizers available.
Considering the time for a resize. IF you have your data backed up
AND you have the original XP discs, (we don't want ole bill to go
out of business; plus you have all your drivers. It's much easier to
nuke the partition and go from there. XP with office only needs
5-6GB disc space.
Note about primary partions and logical. You can ONLY have 4 primary
partitions at one time ever. You may have up to 256 logical.
I'm betting that since your fsck is okay on Windows if you looked at
that partition there are IMMoveable blocks towards the end of the
space. This would also prevent a resize.
gk
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