partition magic error 50

sorry. correction in the first paragraph:

due to a few kb's of bad clusters in E drive it fails at 50% of the process and it quits...

i deleted the empty drive D in hope partition magic will find the "border" more easily since all the data is still on drive E for sure. after running partition magic again to search for the recovery markers, it still shows up the "table error #50" message. please help!

See if this helps
If PM can't lock the partitions, it writes a batch file, reboots and executes it to finalize the partition table and MBR.
I'm not sure your efforts with fdisk and recovery console were compatible with what PM was going to do, but at this point, I'd try the recovery console fixmbr and fixboot
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/bootcons_fixmbr.asp

Hi Cyril,
I can give you a few ideas but some may not be good if you have valuable data in the D & E drives. Maybe if you have used PQ7, you could the following. Remove the hdd & attach it as a Slave in another PC. Install PQ7 there on the master hdd & first just try to increase the size of either partitions to as much as you can. Note that D & E are logical drives so those can be treated under the physical secondary partition.

See how that goes & post the outcomes back here.

Regards,
Zubin

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