Can't mount external Hard Drive after shrinking partition with parted
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 1 down vote favorite 1 I resized the NTFS partition in my external hard drive by shrinking it and then I created a 2nd fat32 partition starting from the end of the 1st partition. I also switched the boot flag from the NTFS partition to the FAT32 partition. After quitting parted, the new FAT32 partition automounts when plugged in but the 1st NTFS partition can't be mounted using either udisksctl or manual mounting. The latter gives me: [user@host mnt]# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/volume ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ director...