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Thread ID: 26425	2002-10-27 03:29:00	Partition Magic 8 Problems	jordan_XP (1994)	Press F1

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93404	2002-10-30 08:04:00	> Running scandisk on an NTFS partition - interesting - > must try it one day. ;) how about chkdsk, or chkntfs in a cmd prompt?? Not the same process, but called the same thing. G P	Graham Petrie (449)
93405	2002-10-30 10:08:00	LOL	Merlin (503)
93406	2002-10-31 06:05:00	I went to the powerquest site and tried there suggestion, which was to boot off the boot disks and type: lock c: - which didnt fix the problem. I disable NAV and tried again, but, yet again, to no provail. I tried booting of the disks again, because I thought I might be able to create a new partition in there, and some how it would magically work, but it didnt. In fact it didnt even give me the option of creatin a new partition. Any other suggestions? -Jordan	jordan_XP (1994)
93407	2002-10-31 06:11:00	Backup your data and start from scratch??? G P	Graham Petrie (449)
93408	2002-10-31 06:16:00	what do you mean? how do i do it? (sorry im not the most talented 15 yr old on the comoputer :P) -Jordan	jordan_XP (1994)
93409	2002-10-31 07:37:00	OK, first question - is it your computer, or your parents?? If it is theirs, I wouldn't muck around withit because partition magic is the type of programme that, as you have found out, has the potential to ruin your system. If you want to go on anyway, I would recommend saving all of your important documents to Cd, and reformatting the partition, repartitioning, and reinstalling windows. If you don't want to do this, and you cannot get anywhere, it might be time to decide that you do not have the knowledge to do the job, and you will have to pay someone to do it for you. It may cost you in the short term, but is better than having a stuffed system that you will have to pay to get fixed anyway. I think that we have done about as much as we can without actually sitting in front of the computer itself and trying it ourselves. G P	Graham Petrie (449)
93410	2002-10-31 17:58:00	OK, thanks. I think I will do the whole 'format my computer and reinstall windows, but back up my files first' trick. Thanks for all your help everyone! Oh, and by the way it is my parents computer, so i better be careful and take it in baby steps! -Jordan	jordan_XP (1994)
93411	2005-11-26 19:02:00	Hi All! I know it's about 3 years too late, however, I figured that as this forum was returned as the top result on Google when I searched for information about this problem, that I may as well contribute here. What you need to do when you get an "Error #27" is run DISKPART. DISKPART is a built-in windows feature that I believe is a part of all Windows Platforms above 'Windows 98' (ME, PE, XP etc...). In order to use DISKPART effectively, you will need to know the disk number, and partition number of the drive in question, according to Windows. This is always an integer (whole number) and can be deciphered in the following fashion: To Ascertain the disk number is relatively simple. It is the disk number at the top of the graphical display for the drive that you need 'fix' in Partition Magic... Only, minus 1... If for example, it says 'Disk 1', it's actually 'Disk 0' (As 0 is not a negative number, so the counting starts there). If it says 'Disk 2', it's actually 'Disk 1' and so forth... The partition number is the number of the partition if you count from left to right, this time starting at 1, NOT zero! Confusing right? After using DISKPART, the drive letter will be removed, thus making the files (not the drive), temporarily inaccessable by Windows and you may need to reboot for the changes to take effect. Please be 100% certain that you have the correct drive number and partition number. Although it shouldn't cause any problems that aren't reversable, I don't accept any responsibility for mistakes made on your part. Follow the steps below to dismount your drive before performing the tasks with Partition Magic. Once you have done what you set out to do successfully, you can use partition magic once again, to designate the drive letter back to your newly resized partition, once more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. At the CMD/COMMAND prompt, type: DISKPART To access the command prompt, click on 'Start', then 'Run' and type 'CMD' (without quotes), if that doesn't work, type 'COMMAND' (without quotes). 2. At the DISKPART prompt, type SELECT DISK <disk number> and press Enter. (Replace <disk number> with the appropriate zero-based number assigned to the target drive.) 3. Type SELECT PARTITION <partition number> and press Enter. (Replace <disk number> with the appropriate integer (whole number) number assigned to the target partition.) 4. Type REMOVE and press Enter. A messageshould now be displayed indicating whether or not the operation was successful. 5. To quit DISKPART, type EXIT and press Enter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that you may experience problems with Windows if you don't have a lot of RAM, and your paging file is on the partition you are unmounting. If you have any questions on what I have written, or feel that anything is incorrect, please E-mail me at admin@fuzznet.co.uk and I will do whatever I can to help. Hope this helps :nerd:	Zero_Kewl (2354)
93412	2005-11-26 22:35:00	Man is this thread old	Big John (551)
93413	2008-05-11 18:23:00	10/26/2002, 11:29PM Original Post 11/26/2005, 03:02PM Best Posted Answer 05/11/2008, 01:32PM on a cool Mothers Day in Virginia (USA), I just made use of this information in the United States almost 6 years after the original question was asked on a New Zealand Forum and almost 3 years after the best answer was given....Isn't the internet great. Thanks "Zero Kewl"	tonyclem63 (2355)
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