Cannot Partition Disk Innaccessible

[MorseLady]

I am no nearer resolving my partition problem(see my thread further down). Every test I run says my system is healthy yet I cannot do anything either from PM7 or XP own disk management. When I right click on my drive I am not given any options, formatting or anything else and the whole disk is given over to drive c, there is no unallocated space and I cannot see how it is done.

I never had this problem with ME so I think I will dump XP and put ME on my new machine because XP is driving me mad.

How do you view reports from CHKDSK? It closed down before I could read something that looked like it could be relevant to my problem.

I am fast going off computers and am cancelling my courses.

DESPERATE!:mad:

[Akuma]

Originally posted by GranGeek
When I right click on my drive I am not given any options, formatting or anything else and the whole disk is given over to drive c, there is no unallocated space and I cannot see how it is done.

You have two drives in one machine and they both are treated as C:? That sounds an awful lot like the dynamic disk function of XP. Did you activate dynamic disk before you installed the second hard drive?

[Budster64]

In your last post you mentioned getting error 983 which is an error code specific to Partition Magic but primarily version 6 yet you were using PM 7 which should be able to work with XP and either NTFS or FAT. If the entire disc ( which holds the system files) is formatted as the C:\ partition then Disc management in XP will not allow you to delete from the GUI and there is no way to resize a system partition unless you use PM 7 or something like that. I would check and see if there are any updates. I also checked the Powerquest site, they suggest running chkdsk /f on the drive this should force chkdsk to repair errors. You can go to start/run enter cmd to open a command prompt window and enter chkdsk c: /f
it will start to run then tell you the disc is locked and would you like to run chkdsk at next boot up. type in y and hit enter, chkdsk will run on the next boot.
Try PM 7 again after this is done.

[MorseLady]

Akuma I only have one 80GB hard disk configured as Drive C and my other drives are DVD is D and CD/CDRW is E.

Budster I have run CHKDSK from Norton Systemworks 2002 and from XP itself but cannot find out how to run /F as I am still new to XP and it is beginning to annoy me.

I have the latest Partition Magic 7 and never had any problems with it on my old machine where I was running ME, XP Pro Eval and W2K Server Eval as a single user as well as a logical partition to store music and files.

[NooNoo]

Originally posted by GranGeek
Budster I have run CHKDSK from Norton Systemworks 2002 and from XP itself but cannot find out how to run /F as I am still new to XP and it is beginning to annoy me.



OK, dump norton and then as budster said
Start
Run
type in Cmd
Press return
type in Chkdsk /f
press return

It will tell you you can't do it now, would you like to schedule on the next reboot, you say yes. Reboot

and watch it run.

[NooNoo]

This is what to do with 983 errors (http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id62.cfm) after you run chkdsk /f

This is not about Windows XP or partition magic, this is about the way your hard drive has been set up.

[MorseLady]

Noo Noo I was apparently running fix from Norton, did not realise it is the same as /F at the time because I am really stressed out.

I watched CHKDSK going through three stages and at the end just before it went back to Windows I caught this

"The second NTFS boot sector is unwriteable".

Do you think PM7 corrupted something because I remember now when I installed it it came up offering to fix some error and I clicked yes.

I have tried uninstalling PM7 and still cannot do anything in XP Disk Manager and I have tried System Restore to before I installed PM7 - what now? Broken my new computer?

[MorseLady]

I ran CHKDSK/F from the prompt and reinstalled Partition Magic rebooted and it seems OK now as I now have a 10GB Logical NTFS Partition. The Disk Geometry error dialogue box has gone but there are still some values discrepancies.