gParted failure

[Dave Scott]

Loïc Martin wrote:

> On Sat, 27 May 2006 06:47:57 +0000, K7AAY john at 503bartley.com wrote:
>
>>> gParted 0.1
>>> 190 GB HD with 125GB of content
>>> NTFS from XP
>>> dismount the partition
>>> launch gParted
>>> Tell it to resize, just the one operation
>>> Tell it to proceed; it looks as if it will
>>> and then the screen blinks and I'm right bak where I was.
>>>
>>> Your kind advicse would be appreciated.
>>>     
>>
> That happens when your NTFS partition has errors. Before trying 
> anything else, you should check thoroughly your partition in windows 
> (I don't know if scandisk would be sufficient for the job, as I don't 
> really now much about windows tools).
>
I have two NTFS drives and the original C: drive developed read errors 
on it. I tried reformatting once I move everything to a new C: drive and 
this one is a D: drive and then used Partition Magic on the D: drive. It 
wouldn't finish the operation, probably for the same reason gParted 
failed above. I'd be very interested in any info on very low level 
reformatting tools, in either Linux or WindowsXP where those bad read 
tracks would be reassigned to unused tracks.

Thanks,
Dave

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