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patrick

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Oh oh. This probably isn't good.
I was running Partition Magic 7 Pro to resize partitions on one of the computers at my house and it has stopped. It is at 74% and acts as though it is frozen.
What the h*ll am I meant to do now?

Pleeeeassse don't make me format it... please...
Come on tell me that I haven't just buggered the whole thing up.
It was resizing C (smaller), then it resized the logical disk- *, and finally making D larger. It got to Total- 74%, moving partition 53% and moving data 54%.

Plz help...

Patrick
 
If you made the floppy disks as suggested when you loaded partition magic you should have two of them. Put number 1 in at bootup & see if it boots. If nothing happens boot using a windows boot disk. At the A:\prompt put number 2 in & type pqmagic

That should let you see, if possible, what is left of your hard drive. Try again to configure it from there. Don't like your chances though.
 
Well somehow a miracle happened.
After twenty-five minutes of frozen appearance it recovered and completed the operation.

Thanks for replying.

btw- I was wondering what the advantages of using the "*" extended partition instead of just using C and D both as primary partitions.


Thankyou sincerely,
Patrick
 
Don't know about the extended partitions but it does show that we need more patience when using programs like that. :eek:
 
Originally posted by patrick
I was wondering what the advantages of using the "*" extended partition instead of just using C and D both as primary partitions.


Thankyou sincerely,
Patrick

You can't have 2 primary partitions one one physical drive. You need the primary partition (either all or part of the drive) and then an extended partition in which the D:, E:, F:, and so on would be created. Also, only the primary partition can be "active", which makes it the boot drive......
 

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