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Thread ID: 53512	2005-01-19 20:54:00	Should I repartition	trehorse (6924)	PC World Chat

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315889	2005-01-19 20:54:00	Who would be so kind to advise me as to what I should do. I have a Maxtor Hard drive, 80gb partitioned into 3 partitions. I am trying to resize the primary partition by taking from the second partition. What I did first is to make the second partition smaller. Then I attempted to allocate more space for the primary partition using the freed up space from the second one, BUT now when I try to do that it fails because there are bad sectors on the space that I am trying to reallocate. I used Partition Magic for this. Does anyone have any suggestions? The one thing I thought I can do is to blow away the partitions and remake the partions but will I be able to do that if there are bad sectors? :dogeye: Its been awhile since I ran into this problem. I could just leave them alone and concider that freed space unusable but if I try repartioning I'm afraid I will loose everything.	trehorse (6924)
315890	2005-01-19 21:26:00	you couild try ghost imgagin the pc onto cd then a low level format then reinstall the images	drcspy (146)
315891	2005-01-19 22:08:00	you couild try ghost imgagin the pc onto cd then a low level format then reinstall the images I thinks I may have no choice. I just hope when repartitioning that it doesnt come up with messages like "could not use requested partitioned space. Bad disk...." something like that. :horrified	trehorse (6924)
315892	2005-01-19 22:16:00	If I was you I'd take the hint & get a new drive, especially if this is the drive your OS is residing on. Even though a drive with bad sectors can last for ages, it can also only last for the next 20 seconds Better off getting a new drive for your OS & using the problem 80GB as a slave & perform a low level format on it. Then use it for storage	bartsdadhomer (80)
315893	2005-01-20 00:09:00	Does it actually say they are bad blocks, or does it just say it can't use them in the primary partition? As far as I know, you can't do it the way you tried. I'll try to make a picture: Your starting configuration: [__partition 1__][_____partition 2________][__partition 3__] You make partion 2 smaller: [__partition 1__][__partition 2__][_FREE___][__partition 3__] The free space comes off the tail end of partition 2. That free area can't be added to the first partition. The NFTS funny dynamic system might do it. But fixed partitions start at one block and stop at nnther block. They can't have another partition sitting in the middle. :D You would need to remove the second partition, add space to partition 1 then make a new partition 2 in what's left. Unless PM does lots of moving stuff around. :D I haven't ever bothered with PM. ;)	Graham L (2)
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