CalcProgrammer1
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I'm trying to resize my Vista partition again to free up 20GB of free space.
Current partitions:
1 - 170 or so GB NTFS (Windows Vista)
2 - 40 GB NTFS (Windows XP)
3 - 20 GB Extended (consists of ext3fs and swap) (Ubuntu)
I want to free up some space between 1 and 2
1 - 150GB NTFS (Vista)
2 - 20GB Blank
3 - 40GB NTFS (XP)
4 - 20GB Extended (Ubuntu)
However, apparently partition 2 (XP NTFS) has a bad sector in it. Whenever I try GParted, it gives me an error saying that it can't read because of a bad sector. It tells me to use the -b or --bad-sectors option, but those don't work. Whenever I use Vista's Disk Management, it goes to the spinning blue circle "Thinking" cursor and the HDD light blinks for a while, but then it randomly stops and locks up (PC still seems to be running but won't read from the HDD at all, so trying to do anything that accesses HDD will lock it up). Check Disk passes on both NTFS partitions. SMART says that 0 sectors have been reallocated, but 2 sectors are flagged for possible reallocation. This HDD came with my PC when I got it 3-4 months ago. Why a brand new HDD already has surface failures and won't fix them (reallocate to a reserved sector) is beyond me. I'm running the BIOS Hard Disk Self Test. If I can't get it to work, I hope HP's warranty covers bad drives and that they don't make me ship in my whole PC for a measly drive issue.
Current partitions:
1 - 170 or so GB NTFS (Windows Vista)
2 - 40 GB NTFS (Windows XP)
3 - 20 GB Extended (consists of ext3fs and swap) (Ubuntu)
I want to free up some space between 1 and 2
1 - 150GB NTFS (Vista)
2 - 20GB Blank
3 - 40GB NTFS (XP)
4 - 20GB Extended (Ubuntu)
However, apparently partition 2 (XP NTFS) has a bad sector in it. Whenever I try GParted, it gives me an error saying that it can't read because of a bad sector. It tells me to use the -b or --bad-sectors option, but those don't work. Whenever I use Vista's Disk Management, it goes to the spinning blue circle "Thinking" cursor and the HDD light blinks for a while, but then it randomly stops and locks up (PC still seems to be running but won't read from the HDD at all, so trying to do anything that accesses HDD will lock it up). Check Disk passes on both NTFS partitions. SMART says that 0 sectors have been reallocated, but 2 sectors are flagged for possible reallocation. This HDD came with my PC when I got it 3-4 months ago. Why a brand new HDD already has surface failures and won't fix them (reallocate to a reserved sector) is beyond me. I'm running the BIOS Hard Disk Self Test. If I can't get it to work, I hope HP's warranty covers bad drives and that they don't make me ship in my whole PC for a measly drive issue.