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Unallocated HDD space
I have W98Se and Partition Magic 6.0.
I had created an unused partition on the HDD in order to keep the c: drive unemcumbered by too much free space. I used PM 6.0 to move some of the space to the c: drive and it created, instead, 15Gb of unallocated space. How do I allocate that to the c: drive? Thanks, Lar |
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I tried it again and it gave me "Error 2003: File size does not match FAT
allocation for file". Once I saw that I ran Scandisk and ran PM6 again. I ran it to reallocated free space and it successfully merged that unallocated space with the c: drive. Why it did not do that the first time is unknown. At this point I wanted to complete the thread for anyone's future reference. "Larry B" wrote in message nk.net... I have W98Se and Partition Magic 6.0. I had created an unused partition on the HDD in order to keep the c: drive unemcumbered by too much free space. I used PM 6.0 to move some of the space to the c: drive and it created, instead, 15Gb of unallocated space. How do I allocate that to the c: drive? Thanks, Lar |
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:49:49 GMT, "Larry B"
wrote: I tried it again and it gave me "Error 2003: File size does not match FAT allocation for file". Once I saw that I ran Scandisk and ran PM6 again. I ran it to reallocated free space and it successfully merged that unallocated space with the c: drive. Why it did not do that the first time is unknown. PM has been a piece of crap since day one. The last I heard you have to call them and after you prove you own it legitimately, they send you a copy that works better. That's one way to thwart pirates. Sell crap. -- Merry Christmas! http://www.illwillpress.com/xmas.html |
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I should also report that I just spent a day fixing my computer after I
"successfully" merged the unallocated free space to the c: drive on PM6. Turns out that I could no longer open a few of my more important programs including Norton SWS. Since the Norton uninstall would not complete by itself, as well, I had to manually purge my computer to get a success reinstall. I will think twice next time. Are there reliable alteratives to PM that I should consider or is repartitioning just fraught with potholes? "Larry B" wrote in message link.net... I tried it again and it gave me "Error 2003: File size does not match FAT allocation for file". Once I saw that I ran Scandisk and ran PM6 again. I ran it to reallocated free space and it successfully merged that unallocated space with the c: drive. Why it did not do that the first time is unknown. At this point I wanted to complete the thread for anyone's future reference. "Larry B" wrote in message nk.net... I have W98Se and Partition Magic 6.0. I had created an unused partition on the HDD in order to keep the c: drive unemcumbered by too much free space. I used PM 6.0 to move some of the space to the c: drive and it created, instead, 15Gb of unallocated space. How do I allocate that to the c: drive? Thanks, Lar |
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:29:04 GMT, "Larry B"
wrote: I should also report that I just spent a day fixing my computer after I "successfully" merged the unallocated free space to the c: drive on PM6. Turns out that I could no longer open a few of my more important programs including Norton SWS. Since the Norton uninstall would not complete by itself, as well, I had to manually purge my computer to get a success reinstall. I will think twice next time. Are there reliable alteratives to PM that I should consider or is repartitioning just fraught with potholes? Repartitioning with PM usually works fine. I've done it tons of times. If you successfully merged the partitions and had only certain programs misbehaving afterwards, but that you are sure worked prior to this operation, it seems most likely your system has memory errors and has corrupted files while rearranging the data. There might be other possibilities that don't occur to me at the moment but I would run memtest86 for several hours... actually would've done so before redoing the system since there might still be memory error induced (new) file corruption. FWIW, I don't use PM6 anymore but v8. Heres's how I'd have done the operation you did: 1) IF the system is using a drive overlay (software to extend HDD capacity support for the motherboard), be sure you boot from the HDD, not a floppy so the overlay loads. 2) Once PM is loaded, there's no point in trying to resize empty partitions, just delete it, that logical extra partition and the extended partition it's in, leaving only the Primary C partititon alone for this step. 3) Primary C partition is the only one virtually existing on the PM screen and you choose to resize it larger. PM does things sequentially so if you still wanted the other partition, the NEXT step in the sequence you choose is to create the extended partition in the remaining space (presuming you wanted it to fill entire remaining space), and then IF you want any logical parititons in it, create those.... I see no real reason NOT to create the logical partitions, even if you have no immediate need they might as well be accessible space already available for a future use. 4) You click apply and PM makes the remaining changes. If it can't do ALL of them at that time, you may need reboot to PM, and complete the remaining steps. 5) Of course, if you had memory errors, your method might've worked fine otherwise and the steps I just described might not work any better. |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:29:04 GMT, "Larry B" wrote: I should also report that I just spent a day fixing my computer after I "successfully" merged the unallocated free space to the c: drive on PM6. Turns out that I could no longer open a few of my more important programs including Norton SWS. Since the Norton uninstall would not complete by itself, as well, I had to manually purge my computer to get a success reinstall. I will think twice next time. Are there reliable alteratives to PM that I should consider or is repartitioning just fraught with potholes? Repartitioning with PM usually works fine. I've done it tons of times. If you successfully merged the partitions and had only certain programs misbehaving afterwards, but that you are sure worked prior to this operation, it seems most likely your system has memory errors and has corrupted files while rearranging the data. There might be other possibilities that don't occur to me at the moment but I would run memtest86 for several hours... actually would've done so before redoing the system since there might still be memory error induced (new) file corruption. FWIW, I don't use PM6 anymore but v8. Heres's how I'd have done the operation you did: Everything worked prior to the PM6 problem. I just ran Memtest86- no errors. I have PM8, too, in readiness for a new xp Pro computer soon. I have not installed that PM8 as I figured that PM6 might be better for W98SE and that I had used it many times before without issue. 1) IF the system is using a drive overlay (software to extend HDD capacity support for the motherboard), be sure you boot from the HDD, not a floppy so the overlay loads. Do not have that. 2) Once PM is loaded, there's no point in trying to resize empty partitions, just delete it, that logical extra partition and the extended partition it's in, leaving only the Primary C partititon alone for this step. No empty partitions. 3) Primary C partition is the only one virtually existing on the PM screen and you choose to resize it larger. PM does things sequentially so if you still wanted the other partition, the NEXT step in the sequence you choose is to create the extended partition in the remaining space (presuming you wanted it to fill entire remaining space), and then IF you want any logical parititons in it, create those.... I see no real reason NOT to create the logical partitions, even if you have no immediate need they might as well be accessible space already available for a future use. That is exactly what I had done when I originally got the HDD. I created logical drives with one as a reserve for the eventual use with c: drive, one for data, one for music downloads and one for kid's games. 4) You click apply and PM makes the remaining changes. If it can't do ALL of them at that time, you may need reboot to PM, and complete the remaining steps. In looking back, for some reason when I set PM to resize C: drive and to take it from I: drive. the "boxes" showing the changes did not look right. After a few attempts it would still not proprly show the changes to the I: drive. I executed anyway and ended up with the unallocated space. When I subsequently redestributed free space to C: and left all other drives unchecked as the source of the additional capacity, it took the unallocated space by default. It worked great except for the ancillary software damage in its wake. 5) Of course, if you had memory errors, your method might've worked fine otherwise and the steps I just described might not work any better. |
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:43:07 GMT, "Larry B"
wrote: Everything worked prior to the PM6 problem. I just ran Memtest86- no errors. I have PM8, too, in readiness for a new xp Pro computer soon. I have not installed that PM8 as I figured that PM6 might be better for W98SE and that I had used it many times before without issue. Naw, just make a PM8 boot floppy or a bootable thumbdrive (if systems support and WORK booting from thumbdrive) and copy the PM8 DOS files to it. You don't really need the whole PM8 suite installed, just booting the floppy is enough and does equally well for Win9x... it supports FAT32 fine and cares not what OS is on the partition or filesystem. That is exactly what I had done when I originally got the HDD. I created logical drives with one as a reserve for the eventual use with c: drive, one for data, one for music downloads and one for kid's games. 4) You click apply and PM makes the remaining changes. If it can't do ALL of them at that time, you may need reboot to PM, and complete the remaining steps. In looking back, for some reason when I set PM to resize C: drive and to take it from I: drive. the "boxes" showing the changes did not look right. After a few attempts it would still not proprly show the changes to the I: drive. Given many partitions, that's a lot of steps it's taking to move more than one partition after another, eventually moving the start of the extended partition. If you need use PM6 you might just try it a step at a time, first reducing the I partition and going back and going each step or a couple at a time. I don't recall what, if any, bugs are in PM6 though, if you isolated that aspect it would be useful. I don't recall any related problems with PM8 though. I executed anyway and ended up with the unallocated space. When I subsequently redestributed free space to C: and left all other drives unchecked as the source of the additional capacity, it took the unallocated space by default. It worked great except for the ancillary software damage in its wake. That is odd, it still suggests memory errors to me, or other system instability doing basic copy operations. |
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