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Partition unavailable after running Partition Magic 8.0 (error 105)
LockedI have a Dell C521 which did run Vista Home Premium OK. Wanted to repartition so I could multiboot for training purposes. Initial setup was the Dell 32MB utility partition, 9GB Recovery Partition (drive D:) and the remainder of the 160GB disk for drive C: with Vista.
I ran Partition Manager 8.0 which said it had found some errors and offered to fix it which I OK’d. PM then finished loading and gave an error #105 (overlapping partition boundaries) and refused to do anything further with the disk. Rebooting proved the suspicion that Vista partition no longer worked. Boot options can access the utility partition OK as the diagnostics can run. Running a copy of Norton Ghost showed that the Vista partition could still be seen.
I then booted from a Bart-PE CD. The A43 file system utility can see everything on all three partitions. Partition Manager Explorer can also browse all three partitions. However, Partition Manager 5.5 (the version on my Bart CD) says the Vista partition is unavailable but D: OK. Tried with a separate Paragon Partition Manager 8.0 recovery CD and that said both C: and D: are unavailable due to crosslinking of the boundaries.
How can some programs see everything in all of the partitions but the partition management apps can’t access some of them? And, more importantly, any suggestions to recover this?
Haven’t yet tried the complete “Factory Restore” option as I don’t know for sure just how much will be wiped and how much recovered but hoping to find another option first as all files are clearly still intact. (No data on it to worry about as it is intended as a test/training PC.)