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

[Dinbandhu]

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> From: Dinbandhu <address@hidden>
> To: Mel Burslan <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Gparted says there are bad sectors, WIN chkdsk says No
> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:15:47 -0500
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> >  
> >         
> >         Today's Topics:
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> >           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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