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| Thread ID: 36196 | 2003-08-02 12:19:00 | Case of the Missing Partition | kamo_kid (1332) | Press F1 |
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| 164820 | 2003-08-02 12:19:00 | Recently I've been a bit short on virtual memory space on my c: partition, so I decided to move some of my d: space over to c:. But after looking at my hard drive on partition magic 5.0 pro, it appears that there is 996.2mb of unallocated space in the middle between my c: and d: partitions. I'm not exactly sure how that got there, I vaguely remember having several extra partitions on this hard drive when I was trying to get some primary boot partition right. Anyway, I've been trying to distribute this free space into the c: partition, but I haven't had any luck. I've defined the empty space is "primary" and then tell partition magic to do its thing using "redistribute free space" as its process. But whenever it boots up under DOS and begins to actually merge the two partitions as the process it is working on, my computer suddenly reboots as though I had pressed the reset button. I've also tried resizing the c: drive to its maximum to take up the space, but I get the same result once it starts working on the unallocated space. I am using Win 98 SE. The c: and d: partitions are on a 20gb hard drive, plus I have a e: and f: on another 20gb in the same system. As it stands, c: is 3gb in size, d: is about 15.5gb (naturally some rounding error) It also has a p3 667 processor, and 256mb ram. Virtual memory is set so windows chooses its quantity. And there is currently a humble 26mb of free space on c: |
kamo_kid (1332) | ||
| 164821 | 2003-08-02 12:50:00 | Hi there, You want to click on the C partition, then go resize. Now up the top of the resize dialogue box you should see a sort of picture of your hard drive. Using this picture, you can click on this picture and drag it to the appropriate size. In your case, drag it over the unused disk space, hence making the C partition bigger. Try that anyway, and get back to us |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 164822 | 2003-08-02 14:24:00 | Short term move the swap file to another drive. Long-term, backup the contents of the afflicted drive and repartition or test. Either the drive geometry is incorrect in the FAT or the drive is faulty. |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 164823 | 2003-08-02 15:35:00 | Yes you'll have to delete the free space (Primary) partiton u made, and make it 'unallocated'. Then partition magic will do its thing | PoWa (203) | ||
| 164824 | 2003-08-03 00:56:00 | Well I deleted the primary partition and tried resizing c:, but it rebooted like it did before hand when resizing. So then I moved my virtual memory to d: and had a look at c: "info" under partition magic and it came up with several FAT allocation and lost cluster errors. So I ran MS scan disc within partition magic and for once it scanned c: properly (I tried doing a scan disk several times before posting the original message, but it would always freeze about 3/4 through). Then I tried resizing c: again and it worked. Excellent. And now my virtual memory is back on c:. Thank you for the ideas. |
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