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Help..Partition magic made my partition disappear into oblivion
Something went wrong while I was merging a 6Gb NTFS patition with the
50Gb NTFS primary partition it had originally come from...(PM had frozen and I had to reboot half way thru the process...yikes). Now there is 6Gb of space missing on the disk that doesn't even show up as unallocated space... The Bios, PM and Sisoft Sandra all report the full drive size but report nevertheless the available space as being 6Gb short of what it ought to be... XP and CHKDSK, unfortunately only see the "reduced size". PM from XP or Rescue floppy doens't see anything wrong otherwise and everything works.... It looks like the FAT is confused as to where the last sector of the disk is.... Does anyone know of a way to "fix" this...a utility...a non destructive formating...whatever...?? Any help would be appreciated. Pierre |
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"Pierre Jarry" wrote in message ... Something went wrong while I was merging a 6Gb NTFS patition with the 50Gb NTFS primary partition it had originally come from...(PM had frozen and I had to reboot half way thru the process...yikes). Now there is 6Gb of space missing on the disk that doesn't even show up as unallocated space... The Bios, PM and Sisoft Sandra all report the full drive size but report nevertheless the available space as being 6Gb short of what it ought to be... XP and CHKDSK, unfortunately only see the "reduced size". PM from XP or Rescue floppy doens't see anything wrong otherwise and everything works.... It looks like the FAT is confused as to where the last sector of the disk is.... Does anyone know of a way to "fix" this...a utility...a non destructive formating...whatever...?? Any help would be appreciated. Pierre Not much help I'm sure, but it sounds like you need to repartition the entire drive. Before you resort to that you might wanna try "MBRwork". This is apparently what it can do (taken from the readme file), but fortunately I've never needed to resort to that kind of work: readme file MBRWork - Freeware utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR and disk functions. Provided As-Is. It can perform the following: 1 - Backup the first track on a hard drive. 2 - Restore the backup file. 3 - Reset the EMBR area to all zeros. 4 - Reset the MBR are to all zeros. 5 - Install standard MBR Code 6 - Set a partition active (avail on the command line too) 7 - Work with multiple hard drives. 8 - Remove EZ-Drive (You must boot directly to a diskette (by passing ez-drive) for this option to show) 9 - Edit MBR partition entry values. A - If no partitions exist in the MBR and no EMBR exists then this option will allow you to recover lost FAT, HPFS, NTFS, and Extened partitions. C - Capture up to 64 disk sectors to a file. R - Restore up to 64 disk sectors from a file. This feature should only be used by those who completely understand what they are doing! T - Transfer/Copy sectors from disk to disk. This feature should only be used by those who completely understand what they are doing! P - Compare sectors. Be sure to visit www.terabyteunlimited.com for .......................... /readme file |
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