Re: magic partition failed redimensioning ntfs partition
- From: Ivan Marsh <annoyed@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:18:35 -0500
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:34:39 +0100, birre wrote:
On 2008-03-28 05:35, ray wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:00:34 +0000, heavytull wrote:
Magic partition failed while redimisioning the winXP partition, now
winXP won't boot (actually it boots, but some time after it restarts
the pc, even in 'safe mode'), linux won't mount its partition. is
there any tool under linux that will help?
Probably not now, but I have indeed used 'gparted' to resize NTFS
partitions successfully.
I read somewhere that NTFS has something secret in the middle of the
filesystem, in the FAT area, even if they maybe call it something else
now. So redusing the size 30/40% is often no problem, but at 50% or
more it can step on something totally undocumented and proprietary
making resize to fail.
But that is what I read somewhere claimed by someone else, all NTFS I
ever had was liberated before they even did a boot for the first time.
NTFS sub-allocates files less than the minimum allocation unit size into
the directory entry table. It is inherently unstable.
You should never repartition any drive of any format without a backup...
unless you're prepared to lose the data.
--
"Remain calm, we're here to protect you!"
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