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I've had this before Just checking that I understand what you've done here... Open a command prompt with administrative rights (i.e. go to Start-->All Programs-->Accessories and __right-click__ "Command Prompt" and select "run as administrator" Then in that window type: chkdsk <drive letter> /f /r If it's your system partition (i.e. C:) then you'll need to reboot for it to do anything anyway. Although I doubt /dev/sda5 would be C:\ Then - check the results of what it's saying... are there any bad sectors? (For a chkdsk of C: during a reboot, this info is in the Windows Event Viewer) If so, are they reducing in number after each run, or staying the same? At this point, my first concern is: are you looking at a dying hard-drive? I'd run some SMART tools to check the health of the drive... you may be looking at a problem soon. If that's all good, then moving on... So, for Gparted... are you booting from a gparted live CD/USB? Or something else? (i.e. dual-boot to an installed Linux?) Personally, I'd use a boot disk of some kind so that no OS is running. I use parted magic (which contains gparted), although it's now become a paid-for product, I still find it useful enough for my day job (setting up Windows servers) Whatever... the 'ntfsresize --bad-sectors' is referring to a Linux command, not a Windows command. This is part of the "ntfs-3g" package - I'm using arch, so I have it installed. I'm 99% sure it's on parted magic, it's probably on the gparted live if that's what you're using. If you're dual-booting to do all this, then just install that package... if you're on Ubuntu / Mint, then a "sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g" should do the trick...then "ntfsresize --help" lists the options to use. Looks like doing "ntfsresize -c /dev/sda5" might be worth doing first (to "C"heck the drive) Then you can do the "ntfsresize --bad-sectors --size <size> --no-action /dev/sda5" to check that that works... and then do it without the "--no-action" to actually do the real resize. This is just doing what gparted was going to do - resize your NTFS partition - just that you can see what's happening. Hope that gets you going Cheers, Steve -----Original Message----- From: list [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Lucas Sent: 31 January 2016 10:57 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] Moving NTFS partitions with Gparted 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 > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft minions.kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk http://hangouts.google.com/start Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq