Guys, Girls: I need help -- again. The problem is the ntfs bug in gparted. It is frustrating, because I have read this guy solved it, that guy solved it, but there isn't any details of what they did. Grrr. A synopsis of the bug is here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php (the main gparted d/l page) What I am trying to do is add a lager hd to my son's computer that he has outgrown the windows partition on. The drive is presently partitioned as follows: sda sda1 - 40G Primary with XP sda5 - 2G swap sda6 - 20G / sda7 - 53G /home What I am trying to do is install a new 250G drive. The plan is to install the new drive as hd0 and then copy the 40G primary too the new drive and then grow it to 210G leaving roughly 30G unpartitioned at the end for whatever. Upon attempting the copy with gparted (0.52-9) the copy fails with an error saying that sda1 has a bad sector and that you need to boot into windows, run chkdsk /r (implies /f), reboot TWICE, and then the partition can be resized using the ntfsresize '--bad-sector' option. OK, great, so I unplug the new drive and boot into windows and run chkdsk -r, then hour later, I try gparted again -- same result. That's when I started poking around and ran into the gparted ntfs bug issue. How in the heck to I copy the partition and resize it if gparted is tanked? Copy it with dd and then just use the ntfsresize to hopefully force a resize. Any of you devs got a better work-around? One big frustration with gparted is that it doesn't (that I can find) provide a place to enter any extra options for the copy or resize. Anybody know any? That's where I'm stuck. If I'm going to go the dd route, does anybody have a quick cheat-sheet that tells how to optimize the copy blocksize working with ntfs? That one area I haven't mucked around a lot and God forbid I mess up my son's Steam Counter-Strike install trying to do this. What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org