Partition Magic 8.0 and errors#1608 and 983?

[ritter197]

I use windows xp pro and Partition Magic version 8.0

I try to resize G: drive and select a smaller size for this drive in order
to then distribute
to C: drive. When I use the button Apply, I get theses
2 errors:

Error #1608. File Record marked used File 13039.

Hardly an intelligent feedback. Their PM knowledgebase is also not very
useful.( says one can ignore this error) Dumb, because :

after that I get
another window with Error #983. Too many errors. Process
halted.

I have tried to resize drive C or drive G (both on the same physical
harddrive) and I always get these errors.

Any ideas why?

 

[Richard Urban]

I suggest that you run chkdsk on the drives you want to work with in
Partition Magic.

Use chkdsk c: /f (/f being the "repair" switch)

Change the c: to whatever drive you want to repair.

When done with the reboots try Partition Magic again and see what happens.
Run it from the 2 floppy disks you can create within the windows version of
Partition Magic.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[KARL MENZEL JR]

I tried that from the CMD prompt in Windows XP Pro and get:

Cannot open volume for direct access.

 

[KARL MENZEL JR]

Got it this time. Running it now on the desktop.
I will try therefater to run PM as sugested and will post result.

Thanks

 

[KARL MENZEL JR]

It seems to work. The chkdsk found nothing wrong or fixed it and did not
tell anything afterward.

Now PM is running VERY slowly to reduce G: drive and increase C:drive.

So far, so good, without error messages, but after 30 minutes only 31 %
complete.

 

[Richard Urban]

Glad it worked. Partition resize on a large volume may take a couple of
hours. Hope that you don't have a power failure in the interim.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!