Home / server / Questions / 219868
Accepted
ane
Asked: 2011-01-08 07:01:24 +0800 CST

Resize ntfs system partitions with GParted?

  • 772

Trying to resize 2 ntfs system and boot partitions (windows 2003 server) using GParted. Goal:

  • Resize D: (/dev/sda1) to ~850G - this is the boot drive with D:\ntldr, boot.ini, etc.
  • Resize C: (/dev/sda5) to 100G - this is the system drive with C:\windows

Tried resizing /dev/sda5 first and got the chkdsk error shown in screenshot #2. (You must run chkdsk /f). Have already run chkdsk /f on C: multiple times with no bad sectors or errors found. Have also run multiple chkdsk /f's on the underlying hard disk multiple times and rebooted way more than a couple times with the same error.

  1. How do you force gparted to ignore this error and resize? I found there is --force option to ntfsresize but don't know how to get the GParted ISO live CD to use it.

  2. How do you move the unallocated space so an extra ~750G is to the right of /dev/sda1 (D:), and an extra 10G to the right of /dev/sda5 (C:)

gparted

gparted chkdsk

partition gparted ntfs chkdsk

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In answer to your second question: while you can resize partitions, you cannot move them. The start of a filesystem cannot be changed. So if you want to add 10 GiB after drive C: D:, you'll need to delete drive D: C: and recreate it in the proper location. Second, you should delete your extended partition sda2 and recreate it to fill the remainder of the space. Otherwise, you'll be restricted by the boundary at the end of sda2; you can't make a partition cross that border.

    Also... if the check keeps failing, it may point to a bad disk.

    • 3

  2. This may be more difficult than you would like.

    Looking at the screenshot, here is what I would do:

    1. Try to resize the C drive partition in Windows (assuming you have a version that has the Disk Management utility to do so, i.e. not XP home). This may potentially eliminate any bizarre issue with GParted.
    2. Resize the extended partition to the desired size
    3. Image the extended partition
    4. Delete the extended partition
    5. Resize Drive D to the desired 850GB
    6. Restore the imaged partition

    That should hopefully work, assuming that the configuration files in Drive D knows where to find drive C.

    • 2

  3. The PartedMagic ISO has testdisk and mhdd. testdisk may recognize and fix the problem. mhdd may as well.

    • 0