corblimey
September 9th, 2008, 03:24 AM
I don't think I'm destined to get Ubuntu installed on my main machine. Every time I get as far as partitioning, but it doesn't let me resize the XP partition. I then gParted and it gives me a warning to run chkdisk and then reboot twice. I've run chkdsk about 5 sodding times, defragged numerous times (in safe mode) and rebooted probably a dozen times. Every time, the error comes back up in gParted. I'm assuming this is why the Ubuntu installer partition editor isn't let me in either.
Right now, gParted is showing:Partition Filesystem Label Size Used Unused Flags
/dev/sda1 fat32 4.97GiB 3.78GiB 1.19GiB
/dev/sda2 !ntfs HP_PAVILION 181.33GiB --- --- boot
unallocated unallocated 7.38MiBClicking on the ! gives me * Warning: The disk has bad sector. This means physical damage on the Disk *
* surface caused by deterioration, manufacturing faults or other reason. *
* The reliability of the disk may stay stable or degrade fast. We Suggest *
* making a full backup urgently by running ‘ntfsclone –rescue –‘then *
* run ‘chkdsk /f /r’ on Windows and reboot it TWICE! Then you can resize *
* NTFS safely by additionally using the –bad-sectors option of ntfsresize*How would I use this -bad-sectors option in gParted? How does gParted know about my bad sector so quickly? This comes up almost immediately upon starting up. It takes chkdsk many hours - I don't know the results of the chkdsk, by the time I come back it's rebooted - if there were errors, would I know about it?
Any sort of help would be appreciated.
Right now, gParted is showing:Partition Filesystem Label Size Used Unused Flags
/dev/sda1 fat32 4.97GiB 3.78GiB 1.19GiB
/dev/sda2 !ntfs HP_PAVILION 181.33GiB --- --- boot
unallocated unallocated 7.38MiBClicking on the ! gives me * Warning: The disk has bad sector. This means physical damage on the Disk *
* surface caused by deterioration, manufacturing faults or other reason. *
* The reliability of the disk may stay stable or degrade fast. We Suggest *
* making a full backup urgently by running ‘ntfsclone –rescue –‘then *
* run ‘chkdsk /f /r’ on Windows and reboot it TWICE! Then you can resize *
* NTFS safely by additionally using the –bad-sectors option of ntfsresize*How would I use this -bad-sectors option in gParted? How does gParted know about my bad sector so quickly? This comes up almost immediately upon starting up. It takes chkdsk many hours - I don't know the results of the chkdsk, by the time I come back it's rebooted - if there were errors, would I know about it?
Any sort of help would be appreciated.