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Red exclamation mark when attempting to resize HDD - gparted

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I'm unable to shrink Windows partition using gparted live CD.

The partition filesystem is NTFS. Windows 7 is on it and boots fine.

Gparted information dialog gives the following:

Status - unmounted

ERROR - the disk has at least 19 bad sectors

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

The cause might be a missing software package. The following list of
software packages is required for ntfs file system support: ntfsprogs
/ ntfs-3g.

I've scanned for disk errors and rebooted twice as suggested above.

How do I get rid of this red exclamation mark?
(The red exclamation mark looks like this).

Thanks in advance.

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answered 2 Years ago rieency · Accepted Answer

You can try booting to windows, run ckkdsk, and try resizing with the Windows tools.

Keep in mind:

First, the Linux tools are reverse engineered and there at times with they can not manage / repair NTFS partitions. On such occasions you will need to fall back to the Windows tools.

Second, yes there are times when the Windows resize tool limits how much you can reduce the size of your NTFS volumes. I am not familiar enough to know why, but I suspect there are files scattered on the disk that for some reason are not movable by the Windows tools. In such an event, you can repair the NTFS partition, defragment as much possible, and then boot Ubuntu and re-try gparted

Third, data loss or hard drive failure can happen with these tools. I suggest you have a Windows recovery disk and a back up of your data.