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Asked by Watts99 in Hard Drives & Storage
I'm running Windows XP on an 80GB hard drive. I tried to use Partition Magic 8 to resize my primary partition to 48GB and to create a new partition after the primary. I set Partition Magic to do this; it rebooted the comp to partition everything outside of Windows but while it was resizing my primary partition it encountered some sort of error (I didn't catch exactly what, but it had something to do with cluster sizes) and shut down. WinXP brought up the "Something is wrong with your computer" boot screen with options for safe mode, ect. but all of the options simply wind up rebooting the computer back to the menu again. I tried using the Partition Magic recovery disks, but Partition Magic is useless because there are errors on the primary partition now (which I'll list below) and it can't do anything with it. PM is showing the primary partiton at the new size of a little more than 40GB and the rest unallocated. I think (but am not sure) that the problem may have happened because I have just over 40GB of data on the primary partition and resizing it to 48GB didn't give enough space for everything. I can boot to a command prompt off of the Partion Magic recovery disks and off of my OEM recovery CD but the partition isn't being recognized or assigned a drive letter so I can't run CHKDSK to fix the disk errors.
The Partition Magic errors are:
1516 Partiton Improperly Dismounted
1531 Too Few Clusters
1609 Lost Clusters (a whole bunch of these errors)
I would like to be able to save the data on my drive so if there is a way to repair the partition errors without using FDISK or my OEM WinXP CD to reformat and repartion my disk I would be ecstatic to know about it.
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