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by iain z-uk 1 view

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I just tried to repartition my hard drive using partition magic pro 6, but it crashed half way through, I was deleting a partition and resizing another one, when it came to reboot it wouldn't boot at all and asked for the command.com file. I tried to boot from a rescue disk and it said there was a recoverable error with my partitions and would repair it for me so i let it then rebooted and ran scandisk. I thought great problem solved, but to my horror no it wasn't, I tried running partition magic and it won't now recognise any partitions and is just reporting one called 'bad' its throwing up errors 117 and 108 what can i do to repair my partitions please help.

Iain

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by raffi_

Hello.

I'm sorry but there is no "magic switch" that will fix your problems.

Re-partitioning a drive with Partition Magic is fine when all goes well but, as you have discovered, it does not always go well. Finding and correcting the problem isnot for the faint-of-heart or those with no experience.

If you want a crash course in basic disk structures then you can try to fix this problem yourself using the resources at http://www.powerquest.com support.

I certainly do not want to try to walk you through it by remote control. I would need to be sitting in front of the box.

If you need the machine back - intact - then please call a local professional. If you can do without whatever was on that machine then you can use fdisk to delete all partitions and re-install your OS and start over again.

Regards
Raffi_

by dmiles

One problem could be caused by the drive overlay software being used to recognize large harddisk drives,use the harddisk installation software to disable the software.
Another area is hard drive has corrupt clusters on the drive that is being detected by partition magic.
117 and 108 point to harddisk errors that causes partition magic to crash.
Check the drive for errors using scandisk from the command prompt,using a windows startup disk.

by iain z-uk

Thanx for the replies guys but have managed to sort it out now, its taken me about six hours of fiddling with one thing and another but I've managed to get it all back without loosing any data and its working fine now. I have learnt a few things though and because I either fixed or lost the lot I took a few risks so its not something I would reccomend doing unlees you know what your doing or, like me have got nothing to lose and a bit of time. One thing I will say though is the tools thatcome with partition magic do work even if the not very amatuer proof. But thanks for the replies guys.

Iain

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