HD Partitioning Problem...

[MarkTwain]

I'm using Partition Magic 7.0 to increase the size of my HD's primary partition (C) from 8 Gb to
15 Gb--but PM 7 refuses to do it... (I'm running under W2K).

PM gave me a warning about increasing the size bigger than 8 Gb (or 1000 cylinders).

There's a second partition on this drive, with 6 more volumes (D-I) allocated within it.
I had to move those first. Now there's free space at the end of the primary partition,
but it still won't make the primary partition any bigger...

I got a couple of PM error codes (1073731435 & 322123851),
but I can't decipher them, even from the Symantec PM error-code web site.

Thanks for any good feedback concerning this dilemma....

[glc]

You may need 8.0.

[MarkTwain]

I hope not--I've read many horror stories about how PM 8 is not the great product that it was under Power Quest...

I sincerely hope I can accomplish what I need to do using PM7!

[glc]

Powerquest did release 8.0 before the buyout - that's what I use, Powerquest 8.01.

[MarkTwain]

I'll give some consideration to that...

Meanwhile, is there another product out there similar to PM, that gets good reviews?

BTW, a friend (who's actually handling this partitioning task) wonders aloud about
any "needed LBA work to be done in the Registry...."

Thanks.

[glc]

If there is any LBA issue, it will be with the system bios, not the Windows registry.

[MarkTwain]

Perhaps this profile of my 80-Gig HD will be of some help in dealing with
this problem:

Drive C: 7.86 Gig
[7 Gig unallocated here]
Drive D: 19.5 Gig
Drive E: 509 Mgb
Drive F: 1.16 Gig
Drive G: 1.16 Gig
Drive H: .99 Gig
Drive I: .99 Gig
[37 Gig unallocated here]

[gamechief]

Listen you dont want to make the dive partion any bigger then that becase of the fact that you run the risk of the drive crashing i lost a 200 gig drive like that but if you really want to to increase the partition then use 8.0 Instead of 7.0 also it could be the OS you are using.