Partition software halp.

2007-11-28 07:22:27

#1

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|7130

I need a program to recover the 180gb of unpartitioned space on my second harddrive.

drive D: has XP on it, nothing else. Drive C: is 500gb big, but 180gb is unpartitioned space, so C: is seen as 320GB big. I want to restore C: back to its full glory for epic legal downloading justice.

It doesn't matter if the program's free or not.

2007-11-28 07:29:42

#2

jamiet757: Member; +138|7099

Patrition Magic, however, why do you have xp on a drive that is not c:? in my experience that creates issues with some programs... just curious

2007-11-28 07:48:39

#3

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7074|Seattle

Yeah, use partition magic and set the drive letter to C:

Jamiet757 is 100% correct on that, Windows should always be the C: drive.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2007-11-28 08:21:58

#4

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|7130

hmmkay.. this is most confusing.

PartitionMagic likes drive D:. It recognizes it as NTFS with the right properties. C:, on the other hand, is not NTFS but "BAD" and it doesn't recognise the 180gb or unpartitioned space.

C: is working fine. I just watched an episode of house that was on it. XP recognizes the size it currently is.

I also cannot change D: to C:, as C: is occupied and partitionmagic won't let me do anything to the current C:.

what do I do?

2007-11-28 08:32:49

#5

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6999|...

Lucien wrote:
hmmkay.. this is most confusing.

PartitionMagic likes drive D:. It recognizes it as NTFS with the right properties. C:, on the other hand, is not NTFS but "BAD" and it doesn't recognise the 180gb or unpartitioned space.

C: is working fine. I just watched an episode of house that was on it. XP recognizes the size it currently is.

I also cannot change D: to C:, as C: is occupied and partitionmagic won't let me do anything to the current C:.

what do I do?

ghost

2007-11-28 08:36:03

#6

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|7130

jsnipy wrote:
ghost

Explain.

2007-11-28 08:41:04

#7

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7074|Seattle

Lucien wrote:
jsnipy wrote:
ghost
Explain.

I wouldn't use ghost for this. There's a free demo of a program called Acronis True Image. What he's suggesting you do is use a second hard drive to copy the image of D: over to a second hard drive, resizing it as it goes. Then you could copy that image back over to your original hard drive.

I have another thought, not sure if it will work, but if you Right Click on My Computer, and select Manage, then Disk Management. There might be a way to fix your "bad" drive (C: ) Play around with it and see if it can reformat your C: drive partition to NTFS and make it active. Then use partition magic to merge the 2 together as one.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2007-11-28 08:46:09

#8

Bernadictus: Moderator; +1,055|7214

King_County_Downy wrote:
Yeah, use partition magic and set the drive letter to C:

Jamiet757 is 100% correct on that, Windows should always be the C: drive.

Why should Windows be on the C: drive?

2007-11-28 08:49:40

#9

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7074|Seattle

Bernadictus wrote:
King_County_Downy wrote:
Yeah, use partition magic and set the drive letter to C:

Jamiet757 is 100% correct on that, Windows should always be the C: drive.
Why should Windows be on the C: drive?

Some programs have C: hard coded into them, so when it's looking for directory c:/Windows... it gets confused and sometimes freezes up.

It basically just makes life easier.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2007-11-28 09:14:35

#10

jamiet757: Member; +138|7099

Lucien wrote:
hmmkay.. this is most confusing.

PartitionMagic likes drive D:. It recognizes it as NTFS with the right properties. C:, on the other hand, is not NTFS but "BAD" and it doesn't recognise the 180gb or unpartitioned space.

C: is working fine. I just watched an episode of house that was on it. XP recognizes the size it currently is.

I also cannot change D: to C:, as C: is occupied and partitionmagic won't let me do anything to the current C:.

what do I do?

If it says it is "BAD" then it is probably either a problem with the file system or the MFT, in either case, try to reformat it to NTFS and set it active like King said, once you do that, you can change its letter to anything, then you can change your D: to C: and update all references in the registry, then you can change the large one that xp is not on to D: or whatever you want.

2007-11-28 19:47:30

#11

Captain_Iron_shooter: Member; +2|7166|Montreal, QC. Canada

Try BootitNG, real nice disk management software

As for OS not being on C: I don't see any problem with that.

Got two system here running multiboot configuration and it work great. One with 3 Installation of XP and a laptop with two, each on is own logical drive. The problem is badly design (but that a small flaw) software that use c:\windows instead of %SystemRoot% command.

2007-11-29 01:53:51

#12

Crypto_420: Member; +25|7320|Portland

You could keep C and D the same just create a simple volume, so the drive must be ntfs. You can then take the unallocated space with ntfs and mount it to a folder or multiple folders if your choice. This way you can use windows mmc (microsoft management console) add disk management as a snap in.

The best practice to use with multi os boot systems, install each of them on seperate hard drives. And use NTFS.

If you need detailed help just pm me, i can walk you threw it

Last edited by Crypto_420 (2007-11-29 01:54:36)

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