Partition Magic doesn't see my Drive after reboot.

[acecase]

Hello,
I have a Baracuda T200.7 (I think thats how you spell it
The MotherBoard is an Abit IC7-MAX3.

The problem I am having #1 is that while Partition magic 8 (and more recently, VolumeManager 2.0 since I am running 2k3 server now) can see my drive fine when running from windows, they can't when I reboot. Partition magic shows "a drive" when I boot from the CD, but it isn't my HD.

I can't seem to find anything regarding a compatability issue or anything with google, mainly because ic7-max3, partition magic, and baracuda are all such common strings that I get thousands of junk results. Anyway, I havn't ruled that out.

I need to resize(down) my C: partition to make room to expand my D: by another 25GB.
I can't seem to make that happen without rebooting and when I tried it with partition magic 8 and windows XP, it killed everything on my C and I can't risk that again.

Any help would be greatly apriciated, whether it is getting Volume manager to work with 2k3 to do this without a reboot, fining the problem so a reboot (or partition magic boot disk) will work, or another software package that will work, ANYTHING

Thank you and sorry for the long post. Im not the best at giving the details needed without being a little long winded

 

[rvnguy]

acecase,

I don't know how much you have invested in the information on this drive?

You can probably work through this, while risking losing all of it.

My suggestion: backup important data.
Using fdisk or? remove all partitions, write zeros to the drive, repartition as you want it to be, format all partitions, install a clean W2K3 OS, copy back your data. This might take less time than researching the problem with less risk.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[pansophic]

Any time you mess with partitions you stand an even chance of losing the data in the partition(s). You should never attempt to modify the partition structure of any data that you can't live without, so back it up before you do anything to ensure that you can live without the data on the disk that you are modifying.

That said, I have used Partition Magic many times, and the only time that I had a problem was when Microsoft moved from NTFS4 to NTFS5 (I believe that was with Win2K) and the resize destroyed my NTFS partition. A quick call to PowerQuest (at the time) got me a patch that supported NTFS5 and a short time later, an upgrade.

I have also used QtParted on Linux Live-CDs with great success. My new laptop came a couple of weeks ago, and resizing the XP partition down to where I could put my Linux partitions on worked like a champ! I had backed up the Windows partition anyway. Just in case.


pansophic

 

[wolluf]

If you've got another drive, could try alternative approach - copying the existing partitions elsewhere, resizing drive and then copying them back (I think PM has that functionality - or something like ghost of course).

PS - why do you need to do this?

 

[jurgen36]

Well Partition Magic 8 destroyed the data on three of my machines. Most of the drives (4 in each case ) showed up as raw data after resizing. The data were destroyed not on the drive I resized, they remained intact, however the other drives lost all data. So Partition magic got scapped.
Regards

Jurgen