Re: XP Pro NTFS partition resizing problem with PM7

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From: Crusty \(-: Old B_at_stard :-\) (B_at_stard)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:09:23 -0400

Did you try using Partition Magic by booting up with the two floppy set of
emergency disks?

Don't try to do this stuff from within Windows. It is very likely to cause
problems. I have seen Windows crash during procedures like this and P/M has
NOT been able to gracefully recover.

The only thing that can happen from the DOS environment is a power failure.
And I have seen P/M recover gracefully from a power failure and go on to
completion. 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Alan C. Brown" <acbrown@intnet.mu> wrote in message
news:%23gP5om2MEHA.936@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I apologise for posting this here, but Symantec does not provide personal
> customer support for Partition Magic 7, and I cannot find a good Partition
> Magic user's newsgroup.
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S702 with Win XP Pro (NTFS), and a 60 GB
HDD
> that I re-partitioned into 4 partitions using Partition Magic 7. The
> current status of the partitions is :
>
>                                  Total      Used    Unused
>                                   GB         GB      GB
> C: OS ------------------  10.23     5.10      5.13   Active Primary
> D : Apps---------------  10.00     0.83      9.17    Logical
> E: Data&Dowloads --   9.99     6.03      3.95    Logical
> F: BackUps-----------   27.01     5.25    21.76    Logical
> I was just about to resize all the partitions, mainly to increase the size
> of the C: partition, but also so that all partitions would show a better a
> better reflection of actual space usage.
>
>                                  Total
>                                   GB
> C: OS  ----------------   17.5
> D : Apps ---------------   7.0
> E: Data&Dowloads --  17.5
> F: BackUps ------------ 15.23
>
> The PM7 Resize process is a 2-step process. The first step is to setup the
> changes of the partition sizes, and the 2nd step is to apply the changes
>
> However when I try to apply the changes in PM7, a warning box pops-up with
> the message - "There is no active partition. Are you sure that you want to
> apply the changes ?"  So of course I click on the "No" button to cancel
the
> the resizing.
>
> This is in spite of the fact that the Partition List is showing that the
C:
> partition status is "Active".
>
> Also I did not have this problem when I originally used PM7 to partition
the
> hard drive into C, D, E & F back in Aug 2002.
>
> The same thing happens even if I try to reduce the size of just one of the
> Logical partitions on its own (that is, not interferring with thesize of
the
> C: partition), creating a corresponding amount of unallocated space.
>
> Would appreciate if anyone can explain why this is happening.
>
> What would happen if I were to ignore the "No Ative Partition" warning and
> apply the changes ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Alan C. Brown
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