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Jeff W
This is so simple, it's tragic.
OS: WINXP HOME SP2
Pentium III, 733MHz, 384MB. No ATA card or other weirdness.
My hard disk (before): 160GB total. FAT32. (MAXTOR IDE)
Partitions: C: (system) 16GB D: 102GB
The D partition is used to hold backups and 'scratch' data, and
installations of kids games. Nothing I can't afford to lose, but too
much to backup elsewhere, and a bit of a time hit to rebuild it.
I directed PM 8 to extend the D partition from 102GB to 120GB (allowing
me to use 136GB of the disk, as my BIOS has a 137GB limitation).
PartitionMagic did the operation totally successfully. However, now I
cannot access any files on my D partition.
Windows XP believes the partition needs formatting. I tried a convert
to NTFS and it says it can't convert RAW partitions.
PartitionMagic can see the correct amount of usage on the partition, but
it can't convert to NTFS or browse (I think it calls windows utilities
for both function).
I successfully used PM8 to reduce the partition back to its old size,
and used system recovery to roll my registry back to before I did the
extend.
Nothing helped. I'd really like to get this back. I'm peeved that PM8
can trash a partition so shamelessly.
Any ideas?
thanks!
/j
OS: WINXP HOME SP2
Pentium III, 733MHz, 384MB. No ATA card or other weirdness.
My hard disk (before): 160GB total. FAT32. (MAXTOR IDE)
Partitions: C: (system) 16GB D: 102GB
The D partition is used to hold backups and 'scratch' data, and
installations of kids games. Nothing I can't afford to lose, but too
much to backup elsewhere, and a bit of a time hit to rebuild it.
I directed PM 8 to extend the D partition from 102GB to 120GB (allowing
me to use 136GB of the disk, as my BIOS has a 137GB limitation).
PartitionMagic did the operation totally successfully. However, now I
cannot access any files on my D partition.
Windows XP believes the partition needs formatting. I tried a convert
to NTFS and it says it can't convert RAW partitions.
PartitionMagic can see the correct amount of usage on the partition, but
it can't convert to NTFS or browse (I think it calls windows utilities
for both function).
I successfully used PM8 to reduce the partition back to its old size,
and used system recovery to roll my registry back to before I did the
extend.
Nothing helped. I'd really like to get this back. I'm peeved that PM8
can trash a partition so shamelessly.
Any ideas?
thanks!
/j