How do I force ntfsresize to ignore the backup bootsector?

I cloned one hard drive to another and things are working well. Except for my NTFS volume not taking up the entire partition (due to the older volume being smaller).

Doing this:

sudo ntfsresize -x /dev/sdb3

I get this error:

ERROR: Could not get the old volume parameters from the backup bootsector

How do I fix this?

Solution 1:

In reply to Luciano (StackExchange wouldn't allow me to comment, so I must put this in an own anser) - I had the same problem today and will write here the exact steps for testdisk...

• Choose disk (/dev/sda in my case)
• Choose Intel
• Choose Advanced
• Choose with up/down arrows the correct partition and with left/right arrows the Option [Boot]
• Choose [Rebuild BS]
• Testdisk complains that "Extrapolated boot sector and current boot sector are different." - Choose [Write]
• Confirm with Y and Quit

[Edit] After reboot into Windows-Recovery using "starting-help" (or whatever it is called in English), it said something like "Disk is being repaired, this may take over an hour" - but it was finished after about 20 seconds.

And yay! I can now boot into Windows again, AND the NTFS-filesystem covers the entire partition. So thanks again, Luciano for the excellent suggestion.

Solution 2:

I had a similar problem. I solved it in Windows by using Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) and growing the partition by 1 MB. This resized the file system to fill the entire partition.