[TriLUG] gparted won't resize an ntfs partition

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I'm rescuing a laptop with lots of bad sectors (1900 or so). 
I recovered the files with ntfsclone and have copied the 
files onto a new disk (OK by badblocks) with an ntfs 
filesystem made by mkntfs and the laptop boots and runs 
fine.

However trying to resize the partition with the gparted live 
cd, fails immediately (there's the info triangle with an 
exclamation mark on that line on the partition table). 
Apparently the partition has 1900 or so bad sectors.

Q1. How does the new disk have bad sectors on it? It appears 
that all the bad sector info was carried over with the 
ntfsclone files.

You are supposed to be able to cure this by running chkdsk 
C:/f/r and rebooting twice (which I've done), but still 
gparted won't touch the disk.

I found on google that you can run ntfsresize on the 
partition if you use the --bad-sectors option (igore bad 
sectors) and I get a machine that boots. However the 
partition still had the bad sectors on it according to 
gparted.

Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks Joe

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