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Re: [LUG] Moving NTFS partitions with Gparted

 

Thanks for the advice Kevin.. in the end I cheated. The system actually triple boots - Win XP, Win 7 and Mint, so I booted into Win XP and used Easeus Partition Master to move it, which didn't complain about anything. Then I used a Live Mint CD to move / and enlarge /home (the whole point of the exercise.

Julian

On 31/01/16 10:57, Kevin Lucas wrote:
YOu can do this within win 7 as advised by right clicking on the C drive
in  My Pc, then using tool click the check disk for errors ( and fix
them). It will then say it can as it's being used but will set it to run
on next reboot.
So reboot allow chkdsk to run and fix errors.
Again reboot after so the disk should be clean ...
Then reboot to Linux and carry on
If you  do actually have "Bad Blocks" physical damage then its a New
disk!


On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 23:58 +0000, Julian Hall wrote:
Hi All,

I'm trying to make space on my HD to increase the Home partition (in the
long run to host VMs). To cut a long story short I want to move an NTFS
partition but GParted keeps saying there are errors on it and I have to
boot into Windows 7 and 'run chkdsk /f /r and then reboot twice to fix
the errors.' It then says I can run 'ntfsresize --bad-sectors' (no idea
how to do that).  I have run chkdsk and rebooted twice and gparted still
won't move the partition. I've uploaded the error details to my website
- http://www.kaotic.co.uk/gparted_details.htm and I would be grateful if
someone could take a look and advise me what I am supposed to do next.

I have full backups of everything I need.

Kind regards,

Julian



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