From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EbPEL-0007f1-VY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:17:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jADLGirR005329; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:16:44 GMT Received: from dtlm.homelinux.net (tsclegals.adsl.nq.net [210.11.153.86] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jADLBVkv024204 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:11:33 GMT Received: (qmail 10650 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2005 21:11:28 -0000 Received: from pc-00006 (HELO [203.24.120.182]) (203.24.120.182) by needle.dtlm.homelinux.net (203.24.120.177) with ESMTP; 13 Nov 2005 21:11:28 -0000 Message-ID: <43779F8E.4040706@dtlm.homelinux.net> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:18:22 +1100 From: Dan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050914) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS resizing References: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 08298337-da28-4861-bf2d-eb73039190c0 X-Archives-Hash: 70e8373b7be7ce7699da2b00e3b59d6c Pingveno wrote: > I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new laptop. > As recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using > Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about > accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's > redundant). After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I > needed to use chkdsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. > Easy. Of course, chkdsk alerted me that it can't modify a running NTFS > system. Okay, so I do what it recommends to me: let the checking be > run after a reboot. > > None of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight > problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any > tricks to con it into working? > > -Pingveno > > P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43 > You can try booting with "bartPE", or a disk you can make with "nlite". These tools both allow you to create a bootable windows CD in the Knoppix style. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list