What's This 1024 Boundry & I Don't Care If it Won't Boot

[jim evans]

I use the D: drive for backup. It's a 160gig drive and for some
reason it got partitioned to about 130gig. I'm running out of space
so I tried to increase it to the maximum (155??) using Partition Magic
v8. PM took the instruction and seemed to be proceeding fine. It had
to reboot so I left the machine to do chores. When I came back PM had
thrown up some kind of error message I didn't understand and when I
pressed return to complete the reboot, I saw it had not increased the
size. So I went back into PM. Now when I try to resize the partition
I get this screen
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1535/nonameif3.gif

I have no idea what the little double arrows above and below the left
end of the bar mean and it won't do anything. When I click OK it
simply quits the resize screen and returns to the main/ready screen.

The main screen still shows the full potential drive size but now the
partition resize screen seems not to know it's a 160gig drive. And,
as I said above refuses to do anything.

What't the h@# is wrong?

Also, what's this 1024 boundary stuff and why should I care since this
drive doesn't boot anyway?
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XP Pro SP2, ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, 1GB memory.

 

[jim evans]

Okay, I finally got it to resize the partition by deleting a second
partition of this drive. But, when it resized it apparently corrupted
the drive and now XP does not see anything on the drive. I'm now
trying to reformat the drive, but the only format option it presents
me is NTFS and I need to use FAT32.

What's the deal with this?

 

[jim evans]

To clarify.

I'm trying to format using XP not Partition Magic. Since PM seems to
have corrupted the drive and lost everything on it I decided it would
be safer to format using the operating system utility.

 

[Eric Gisin]

Delete the partition, reboot, and recreate it.
If you get 128GB, you should figure out the cause.

You can use fat32format, but you have to find it yourself.

 

[Rod Speed]

To clarify.

I'm trying to format using XP not Partition Magic. Since PM
seems to have corrupted the drive and lost everything on it I
decided it would be safer to format using the operating system utility.

Just format it with anything you like except XP itself.

XP wont format a drive that big FAT32 but is happy
to use that format if you format it with something else.

 

[jim evans]

Just format it with anything you like except XP itself.

XP wont format a drive that big FAT32 but is happy
to use that format if you format it with something else.

Thanks. It worked using Partition Magic. Strange.