Cannot Partition Disk Innaccessible

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:

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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.

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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?

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

This is what to do with 983 errors 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.

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?

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.