Partition size reporting error - longish!

[Gordon]

I have a 40GB HDD. It was originally partitioned as C: (Windows - NTFS) 15GB
and D: (Data - NTFS) 27GB. I decided to have one of my sporadic forays with
Linux, and using a combination of Acronis partition manager and the Windows
Computer Management snap-in, did the following:
C: (Windows - NTFS) 10GB, D: (Data - NTFS) 5GB, E: (Transfer - FAT) 2GB, the
remaining free space (20GB) formatted for Linux.

I then decided to bin Linux for a while and revert to my previous partition
layout.
Using Windows Disk management, I removed the Linux partition and created a
new partition. Then using Acronis Partition Manager I resized the C: drive
to 15GB. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten to repair the MBR from having GRUB on
it before I did this, so when it rebooted, I had to then boot up with a W98
floppy and repair the MBR. After having done that, and all the rest of the
partition management, I have a size reporting problem! Right-clicking on the
C: drive in My Computer shows the previous size as 10GB, as does Acronis.
However, if I use Acronis to resize a partition, when I get to allocate the
additional space, it shows the correct size! Also in Disk Management, the
graphical representation of the partitions shows correctly, but the
statistical info in the box above shows the previous configuration!

If I re-size the C: drive to (say) 12GB, then all is OK, but if I try to
resize back to 15GB, the size reporting goes all funny again!

How do I correct this?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I would try Acronis support.
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/support/forum/

 

[Gordon]

I would try Acronis support.
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/support/forum/

I don't think it's an Acronis problem - I think it's a Windows problem.

 

[Mike Fields]

I don't think it's an Acronis problem - I think it's a Windows problem.

Yes, but the bunch over in the support forum may have seen this before.
Which would you rather do -- look on a forum where other users may
have seen this before or try to get M$ to solve it when they will claim
it is Acronis ?? Just for grins, you might try "resizing" the partition
down
to the 10 gigs that some stuff seems to think it is then back up and see
if that fixes the issue.

 

[Gordon]

Yes, but the bunch over in the support forum may have seen this before.
Which would you rather do -- look on a forum where other users may
have seen this before or try to get M$ to solve it when they will claim
it is Acronis ?? Just for grins, you might try "resizing" the partition
down
to the 10 gigs that some stuff seems to think it is then back up and see
if that fixes the issue.

Yes I've done that - it seems to report the partition sizes perfectly OK for
any size UNTIL I put it back to the 15GB size when it all goes wrong again!
Which makes me think it's possibly a registry problem?

 

[Mike Fields]

Yes I've done that - it seems to report the partition sizes perfectly OK for
any size UNTIL I put it back to the 15GB size when it all goes wrong again!
Which makes me think it's possibly a registry problem?

You might get a copy of the free Ranish partition manager and see if
it finds anything it doesn't like. I had a partition table out of order as
near as I can tell a while back. Windows was fine, Ranish said it was
fine, Partition Magic and Drive Image both took one look at the disk
and crashed with some strange error message the Power Quest couldn't
solve (or didn't care). Partition magic would not even let me look at
the drive. Sometimes (as you have found) not all utilities
view things the same. Makes life interesting.

mikey

 

[Gordon]

You might get a copy of the free Ranish partition manager and see if
it finds anything it doesn't like. I had a partition table out of order
as
near as I can tell a while back. Windows was fine, Ranish said it was
fine, Partition Magic and Drive Image both took one look at the disk
and crashed with some strange error message the Power Quest couldn't
solve (or didn't care). Partition magic would not even let me look at
the drive. Sometimes (as you have found) not all utilities
view things the same. Makes life interesting.

mikey

Thanks -I'll take a look!