partition magic

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My main HDD is split into 3 partitions:
c: for OS
e: for programmes
f: for data
(d: is another HDD, not concerned here)

Using Partition Magic 600, I resized c: (increase size) and e: (decrease
size)

Plenty of disk space left on e:, so I thought I was not too exoposed
reducing e:'s size.
Well....no : after resizing, e: is no longer available: system says e: is
not formatted and asks if I want to format e:
Before going to the long process of reinstalling all my programmes, I looked
in the Partition Info.
The partition is seen with its correct new size.

Any info or idea on how to recover partition e is warmly welcome.
Thanks in advance,

Thierry

 

[Josef Stalin]

My main HDD is split into 3 partitions:
c: for OS
e: for programmes
f: for data
(d: is another HDD, not concerned here)

Using Partition Magic 600, I resized c: (increase size) and e: (decrease
size)

Plenty of disk space left on e:, so I thought I was not too exoposed
reducing e:'s size.
Well....no : after resizing, e: is no longer available: system says e: is
not formatted and asks if I want to format e:
Before going to the long process of reinstalling all my programmes, I looked
in the Partition Info.
The partition is seen with its correct new size.

Any info or idea on how to recover partition e is warmly welcome.
Thanks in advance,

Thierry

Comrade,

I believe that I had the same exact problem you did last weekend on my home
computer (except my computer didn't say it wasn't formatted). Partition
Magic couldn't reassign a drive letter so this is what I did:

Start->Setting->Computer Management->Disk Management

Right click on what used to be the 'E' partition and assign it the 'E'
drive.

Uncle Josef

 

[gc009083]

Thanks, Uncle, but this did not work either. Believe I'll have to reformat
the whole. I got good backups, though ;-)

Th

 

[George Hester]

Actually you may not have to. Resize the partition that is causing the trouble. And PLEASE do not do it in the GUI. Use the emergency disks.

--
George Hester
__________________________________

Thanks, Uncle, but this did not work either. Believe I'll have to reformat
the whole. I got good backups, though ;-)

Th

 

[gc009083]

Thanks, George. I did so with the emergency diskettes, but it refuses to do
so.
I'm now in the process of reformatting the whole HDD.
Why ? because my HDD is meant to have 80 Go, but dir c: only shows 76 Go.
No bad sectors, though. Probably the wrong formatting format (NTFS, or
FAT32, or FAT )
This HDD is supposed to be loaded with Win2K where NTFS is recommended.
But the DOS format command does not offer the options to format in NTFS.

Any idea of a formatting programme that permits to select NTFS ??

Thierry_




"George Hester" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
Actually you may not have to. Resize the partition that is causing the
trouble. And PLEASE do not do it in the GUI. Use the emergency disks.

--
George Hester
__________________________________

Thanks, Uncle, but this did not work either. Believe I'll have to reformat
the whole. I got good backups, though ;-)

Th

 

[George Hester]

I have 5.5 of Partition Magic. And using the emergency disks is no different from the GUI. I fact I haven't used Power Quest's GUI for almost 5 years. Always NTFS using that. 5.5 though is no good if you have Windows XP or above anywhere in the system. It will fail.

What do you mean "it refuses to do so?" Do you mean you ask the applcation to resize and what happens exactly?

Your disk is 80GB and something shows 76GB. That is normal. What does your BIOS say?

--
George Hester
__________________________________

Thanks, George. I did so with the emergency diskettes, but it refuses to do
so.
I'm now in the process of reformatting the whole HDD.
Why ? because my HDD is meant to have 80 Go, but dir c: only shows 76 Go.
No bad sectors, though. Probably the wrong formatting format (NTFS, or
FAT32, or FAT )
This HDD is supposed to be loaded with Win2K where NTFS is recommended.
But the DOS format command does not offer the options to format in NTFS.

Any idea of a formatting programme that permits to select NTFS ??

Thierry_




"George Hester" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
Actually you may not have to. Resize the partition that is causing the
trouble. And PLEASE do not do it in the GUI. Use the emergency disks.

 

[Colon Terminus]

The discrepancy you're seeing is due to differences in number space.
Computers think and work in base 2 number space, humans (and hard disk
manufacturers) work and think in base 10 number space. These number spaces
don't necessarily coincide.

The discrepancy begins to be magnified at 1,000. 1,000 is easily represented
as 10^3. 1,000 is not so easily gotten to via the base 2 numbering system.
We get closest at 2^10 which is 1,024.

The discrepancy continues to multiply from there. One million in base 10 is
1,000X1,000 = 1,000,000,000. One million is base 2 is 1,024X1,024 =
1,048,576 ... the discrepancy gap widens.

Now let's get to the billions.You've got an 80 billion byte hard drive.
1,000X1,000X1,000= 1 billion in base 10. 80X1 billion - 80 billion. Pretty
simple, huh.

Now let's do the same exercise in base 2.

1,024X1,024X1,024 = 1,073,741,824 or 1 billion in base 2.
1 billion in base 2 X 76 (76 billion is your observed hard disk size) =
81,604,378,624 bytes in base 10.

So there, your 80GB hard disk is, in actuality, an 81GB hard disk. You
should be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks, George. I did so with the emergency diskettes, but it refuses to do
so.
I'm now in the process of reformatting the whole HDD.
Why ? because my HDD is meant to have 80 Go, but dir c: only shows 76 Go.
No bad sectors, though. Probably the wrong formatting format (NTFS, or
FAT32, or FAT )
This HDD is supposed to be loaded with Win2K where NTFS is recommended.
But the DOS format command does not offer the options to format in NTFS.

Any idea of a formatting programme that permits to select NTFS ??

Thierry_




"George Hester" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
Actually you may not have to. Resize the partition that is causing the
trouble. And PLEASE do not do it in the GUI. Use the emergency disks.