Parted

[Karl Larsen]

David Vincent wrote:
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>> David Vincent wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>>     I thought parted might work to correct the stupid windows taking the 
>>>>> entire 160Gb hard drive. But then I used parted check and it says it 
>>>>> doesn't know anything about windows file system. Is there any others 
>>>>> that might work?
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>> something is wrong with your system then because parted/gparted/qtparted
>> all do recognize windows file systems.  ntfs, fat16 and fat32.  run a
>> chkdsk /f /r on your windows partition and see what's up.  you didn't
>> hibernate windows before trying to resize the partition did you?  you
>> will need to shut windows down cleanly.
>>
>> /me suspects operator error
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>>>     Well for your acute information MY Ubuntu has no gparted or qtparted 
>>> on it as well as no chkdsk. The parted I have is version 1.7.1 and it is 
>>> all I have.
>>>       
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> ubuntu does not install parted or gparted or qtparted.  somehow you
> obtained it.  i use the version of gparted in the repo of the ubuntu
> version i am currently using at that time.
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> my gparted says v0.3.3.
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>>     No but the hard disk is on. I used parted /dev/sda check and it said 
>> it didn't know anything about the file system.  So perhaps I can get the 
>> other stuff by apt-get but why do you think it will work?
>>     
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> why do i think what will work?  if you mean why do i think parted can
> handle windows file systems then the answer is because i've used it to
> manipulate them.
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> someone else suggested the gparted live cd.  i can also suggest using
> the systemrescuecd.  google 'em - they are easy to find.
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    Well I found the gparted that I apt-get installed and it also says 
the windows partition is un-readable. I learned from a guy who called me 
a stupid jerk that chkdsk is a windows program. I didn't know that. So I 
will try it and see what it says, if I can find it.

Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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