Hi,
I have Vista Ultimate x64 on my machine with two hard disks of 80 GB and 400 GB (sata). Vista is installed on 80GB hard disk.
When I tried to run PartitionMagic 8.0 in Vista, it gave an incompatibility error message. So I tried to run it in compatibility mode but of no use. My aim to use PartitionMagic was to format a partition on 400 GB hard disk which had the following partitions on it : 200 GB, 150 GB, 10 GB, 11 GB(unallocated). rest all were ntfs partitions. The 11 Gb partition previously belonged to fedora but I deleted it as I had no use of it on that drive.
My problems started when I tried to format the 11 GB partition, vista gave an eerror message that said something like "can not format the volume, not enough space on the disk". So I tried to extend the 10GB partition into 11 GB partition. This step required me to convert the 400 GB hard disk from "basic" to "dynamic". Everything went fine and the extension was successful. Then I noticed that one of my partitions on the 80 GB hard disk in the disk management had lost its drive letter, label and disk management was not listing it as a healthy partition though it showed it as a ntfs partition. On right-clicking the partition, a popup gave an error message stating the disk manager was not up-to-date. The partition was not accessible from my computer from then onwards. I restarted my computer but it was futile.
I then googled my problem and found on a forum that one user had solved a similar problem using TestDisk software. I ran it and it correctly displayed my lost partition with correct label etc. It had an option "Write to new partition table" or something like that and I clicked on that. Next thing I knew was the Blue Screen of Death and my machine restarted but failed to boot vista. I tried repairing it with new installation dvd but during the initialization steps, it gave an error message saying there was a problem with my hard disk and it was faulty. "An I/O error has occured" accompanied the above error message.
Have I lost my hard disk? Has something been messedup in the partition table? Is there any way to repair vista and to mount the hard disk and access all my partitions on it again(seems unlikely, though)? Also, it would be very helpful if someone point out where I screwed up.......
I have Vista Ultimate x64 on my machine with two hard disks of 80 GB and 400 GB (sata). Vista is installed on 80GB hard disk.
When I tried to run PartitionMagic 8.0 in Vista, it gave an incompatibility error message. So I tried to run it in compatibility mode but of no use. My aim to use PartitionMagic was to format a partition on 400 GB hard disk which had the following partitions on it : 200 GB, 150 GB, 10 GB, 11 GB(unallocated). rest all were ntfs partitions. The 11 Gb partition previously belonged to fedora but I deleted it as I had no use of it on that drive.
My problems started when I tried to format the 11 GB partition, vista gave an eerror message that said something like "can not format the volume, not enough space on the disk". So I tried to extend the 10GB partition into 11 GB partition. This step required me to convert the 400 GB hard disk from "basic" to "dynamic". Everything went fine and the extension was successful. Then I noticed that one of my partitions on the 80 GB hard disk in the disk management had lost its drive letter, label and disk management was not listing it as a healthy partition though it showed it as a ntfs partition. On right-clicking the partition, a popup gave an error message stating the disk manager was not up-to-date. The partition was not accessible from my computer from then onwards. I restarted my computer but it was futile.
I then googled my problem and found on a forum that one user had solved a similar problem using TestDisk software. I ran it and it correctly displayed my lost partition with correct label etc. It had an option "Write to new partition table" or something like that and I clicked on that. Next thing I knew was the Blue Screen of Death and my machine restarted but failed to boot vista. I tried repairing it with new installation dvd but during the initialization steps, it gave an error message saying there was a problem with my hard disk and it was faulty. "An I/O error has occured" accompanied the above error message.
Have I lost my hard disk? Has something been messedup in the partition table? Is there any way to repair vista and to mount the hard disk and access all my partitions on it again(seems unlikely, though)? Also, it would be very helpful if someone point out where I screwed up.......
