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[Hawaiian Tim]

When using Partition Magic to create a new fat32
Partition in my usb external drive X: (which is ntfs) it
locked up.
I let it run overnight to see if it would fix itself but
finaly had to cancel the operation. P.M. shows critical
error #46 seek error, also error #7 user canceled
operation pop-up. Windows sees the drive on my computer as
raw. Command prompt will not do chkdsk or scandisk on that
drive,Active unerase.exe from "Active" reads the files in
dos just fine. I have tried fixmbr from xp cd recovery dos
prompt, Also from windows command prompt.It will do
nothing and PM software will not read it yet the X: drive
shows up un My computer. Scandisk and chkdsk cannot read
the files
either.

I could probably copy to another location and
save data but have not tried yet. It seems that my problem
is the MBR Partition Table not in sequential order. can
any one tell me a way to fix, and if I format the drive
Will active unerase still be able to read? These are all
fairly new, but understandable procedures for me. Thanks;
Tim

 

[Rick]

Contact the Manufacturer you may have to use a debug sequence.

Rick

 

[Brian K]

I'd delete the partition (using PM) and then create a logical partition, FAT
32 if you like. You could try PTEdit32.exe in the PM main folder but
deleting the partition will be much easier.

How many partitions did you want on the drive?

Brian

 

[Hawaiiantim]

This usb drive has all my back up, of which about 98% of
that is backed up on my girlfriends dell (all she does is
search web & email), A great storage locker! Any way I
guess I'm trying to learn somthing, which I have. I think
I can copy these recent backups to another file using the
Active uneraser from:
http://www.uneraser.com/download.htm Which sees the files
and I belive will see them even if I format the drive but
not write anything to it. I would like to know as much as
possible before I get off the web and try. Now I have one
back up win xp clone partition 10Gg of what I call " My
perfect hard drive" which is untouched and ok my usb (X
27gb drive has all back up and storage I was trying to
create a fat partition 3gb for tranfering stuff to a win
98 comp Total 40gb. ..... Mahalo and
Aloha!

-----Original Message----->I'd

delete the partition (using PM) and then create a logical
partition, FAT

 

[Hawaiiantim]

Yea, waiting for days, I like P.M. but have always had
probs. with symantec and norton

 

[Brian K]

So the 27 GB and 10 GB partitions are OK and the 3 GB partition is
corrupted. Is that correct? Or are both the 27 GB and 3 GB partitions
corrupted?

 

[Guest]

THE 27 GB and 3 GB partitions are
corrupted, The 10 had no drive letter installed/hidden

 

[Plato]

When using Partition Magic to create a new fat32
Partition in my usb external drive X: (which is ntfs) it
locked up.

Did you delete the old partition first?

 

[Hawaiiantim]

-----Original Message-----


Did you delete the old partition first?

space From drive X> type of partition-fat32-logical...The
whole drive was formated as ntfs primary, not active. but
I had the hidden part. with a back up of my whole os with
no data, is ok

 

[Hawaiiantim]

would you mind reading the rest of the threads. I think I
screwed up this post some how, sorry and thanks

 

[Brian K]

The 10 GB one is OK.

Delete the other two (right click on the partition and choose delete, etc).
Try to do it without the wizards as they can be confusing. Should work this
time.

 

[Alex Nichol]

It seems that my problem
is the MBR Partition Table not in sequential order. can
any one tell me a way to fix, and if I format the drive
Will active unerase still be able to read?

It ought not to matter to systems what order the partitions are in in
the partition table; it is quite normal to have the one that is say
second on the disk in the first slot. But the drivers for your USB
drive may be unaware of this. A tool that will fix it is BootIT NG,
from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional
trial)

Download to a folder of its own, extract the components from the zip,
run bootitng.exe to make a bootable floppy (or an ISO file you can burn
to a Bootable CD as the boot sector)

Boot that, cancel install, entering Maintenance, click Partition work.
Select the drive concerned on the left and you can then click 'View MBR'
and select partitions in the displayed table and move up or down to get
their starting sectors (first column) in Order

It will also do any other partition work you need to do, rather than go
back to Partition Magic

 

[Rustler_Gates]

To all those lurking herein to learn how to repair XP, this is an example
of the kind of post you might want to save for future reference. Or, just
save all of Alex's posts and after while you'll have just about every
conceivable problem covered! It worked for me.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Or, just
save all of Alex's posts and after while you'll have just about every
conceivable problem covered!

Thank you (blushes) - but there's a lot else you need as well