Re: Cannot boot after resizing with Partition Magic 8.05

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Thank you for responding Maurice! I will try to answer your questions:

I left the blinking cursor on for at least a half hour before giving up and
rebooting, only to stop at the same place again.

I'm trying to chill, but not doing well. I booted up with my old win ME
boot disk, and with Fdisk I didn't see Fat32 on the drive info (sizes were
what they are supposed to be after resizing) so that was upsetting. Then I
tried to see the dir on C: (which is usually the D: info isn't it?) and I got
a "invalid media" message which just upped my anxiety. Since some of the
stuff on D: is source program files (large) not yet burned to CD. I don't
see how I can burn them and save them from DOS, so I'm just panicking more.

I read the error #91 message previously, which just confused me. I
installed the Seagate drive (one of two Barracuda 7200s) after giving up on a
350Gig WD drive that I just couldn't get to work. The Seagate came with
install software that included utilities so maybe that is where the disk
manager came from? I thought it was a Windows or BIOS thing (I am not a
techy) so removing it or touching it like the Symantec doc said just plain
scared me. I was not even sure what to look for at the Seagate site to
answer your question about whether I still need it or not when I went there
to check.

I was in Windows when I started PM, but it looked like it shifted out of
Windows into DOS (based on how the screens looked to me), so I really don't
know what it was doing, only that I started while in Windows.

The #91 error only showed up when I tried to run PM after booting with its
CD. It never said anything about it during the resizing, whatever that means.

I remember reading (while in PM and up on the "notes section" before doing
the resize that the process might do something to sys.com and that it might
have to be put back on, but since nothing works I can't tell you exactly what
that note was. Maybe it means something to you?

So, my current status is I'm still stuck and have no idea what to do and
pacing the floor getting more and more agitated.



"Maurice N ~ MVP" wrote:

> How many minutes did you leave it at "DMI Verifying Pool Data" before giving up on it?
>
>
> Chill a bit. The worst case is that you'll be able to view and salvage your critical files and data with a DOS boot diskette.
>
> What is PM's error message 91? From Symantec support page "This error is reported if Disk Manager is detected in the first head (head 0) of the hard disk but is not running."
>
> Does Seagate (your hard rive manufacturer) require the use of a disk manager? why?
>
> I wonder if you used the Windows mode of PM (versus the so-called dos-text mode of PM) to do your resizing operations. Dos-text mode is the safest to use, especially when resizing the o.s. partition.
>
> Have you seen this page at Symantec support?
> http://tinyurl.com/7u4hg
>
> Post back sith your status. I've used PM for a number of years.
>
> --
> Maurice N
> MVP Windows - Shell / User
> -----
>
>
> Gary wrote:
> > I installed PM 8.05 and used it to resize C drive (WinXP OS is
> > there). I used the auto function to take a 1Gig amount each from
> > drives D, E and F (about 25+ plus Gig free on each of these on a
> > Seagate 120Gig HDD) to add to the 1Gig of free space on the C drive.
> > The PM process seemed to go OK (went into DOS(?) and went through 7
> > steps to resize, etc) as there were no error messages. It said at
> > the start it was going to do FAT 32 which is what I had the drives
> > set up as. At the end PM said it was going to reboot and then the
> > fan was hit. The boot up stopped at the "DMI Verifying Pool Data"
> > message and the little line cursor just sat there blinking. I tried
> > to get PM to load off the PM CD (booted from that) in hopes of
> > finding some solution, but I got error message #91 which I guess has
> > something to do with Disk Manager being on the drive (C ?) but not
> > running. Of course I have nothing backed up because I was just
> > stupid and now I'm in a major panic (can live with reinstalling Win
> > if I have to but all my important data is sitting in D and it would
> > be really difficult to try to recreate that if a total format is the
> > solution. Any and all help will be appreciated, because I'm less
> > than optimistic that Symantec is going to come through with an
> > answer.
>
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