Partition Magic Error 1609

B

Bayard

Im having some problems trying to mergeing two partitions on my win xp
pro computer. The two partitions are on one physical drive, a 80 gig
maxtor. When i try to merge the two partitions using Partition Magic
8, i get an error message 1609, which says that it cant locate certain
clusters and it gives me the numbers. When i run checkdisk and disk
defrag, both complete fine with no errors. ive tried erasing all the
data from the partition, and also formatting, which i know would do no
good, but i tried anyways. anyone have any ideas? please help...
thanx,
bayard
 
G

Guest

XP has its own partitioning tools for that,boot to xp cd,recovery,press enter for password,
at cmd screen type:DiskPart In DiskPart any/all partitions are shown,go to unwanted,delete,
when youre thru,type:EXIT back in cmd type:FORMAT D: /FS:ntfs
D: being the/any drive that would be raw w/o a partition.When thru,type:EXIT
Let windows reboot,remove xp cd.
 
C

CS

Im having some problems trying to mergeing two partitions on my win xp
pro computer. The two partitions are on one physical drive, a 80 gig
maxtor. When i try to merge the two partitions using Partition Magic
8, i get an error message 1609, which says that it cant locate certain
clusters and it gives me the numbers. When i run checkdisk and disk
defrag, both complete fine with no errors. ive tried erasing all the
data from the partition, and also formatting, which i know would do no
good, but i tried anyways. anyone have any ideas? please help...
thanx,
bayard

DO NOT use the merge partition option in Partition Magic as it is
known to cause problems. Instead, delete the partition you erased all
the data from, then expand the remaining partition (should be your
primary active partition) to fill all the unallocated space. That
will result in one large partition of 80 Gb.

I'm assuming you're using NTFS. A partition of that size using FAT-32
is very wasteful.
 

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