"partition table is bad"

[Headcheese]

Partition magic 8 sez this when I try to open it. I have uninstalled PM8 and reinstalled, but the same message comes up. I have no other problems (I know of)

Here is how my drive is partitioned:

C: 9.79Gb
D: 7.8 Gb
E: 8.78 Gb
F: 19.5 Gb
G: 7.81 Gb
H: 9.82 Gb
I: 10.89 Gb

C is my system partition, and I: has an unrecognizable install of Win2K I was wanting to delete and reformat as NTFS to install winXP on.


Help me get a clue as to what I have messed up!

Thanks

[[Mystic]]

Which partitions are broken, do you know?

Also what OS are you currently running

BTW, why so many partitions, makes your computer run alot slower.

[Cricket]

Originally posted by [Mystic] BTW, why so many partitions, makes your computer run alot slower.

What?! Having a lot of partitions on your hard drive doesn't slow down your computer at all. Where'd you hear something like that?

Cricket

[Headcheese]

Win2K

Partitions are the way to go in large drives. The OS is on the outside edge(fastest part) of the drive and the rest are in order of how often they are accessed.

I tried again with Partition expert, and did not get any error.


Who knows.

[[Mystic]]

Sorry, maybe im a n00b... But I use to experience slow downs with heaps of partitions... my mates that have gotten rid of partitions has always made there system faster... urban legend?

[doctorgonzo]

Originally posted by [Mystic] Sorry, maybe im a n00b... But I use to experience slow downs with heaps of partitions... my mates that have gotten rid of partitions has always made there system faster... urban legend?

How you set up your partitions may make a difference as to how fast things run (like where you put your swap file, etc.) The number of partitions you have by itself doesn't matter.

[[Mystic]]

because its jumping across the disk all the time... say if your playing a game on drive d while downloadong on e os is on c. Thats jumping to 3 different parts. That must have some sort of impact.

[doctorgonzo]

The same thing would hold if everything was on one partition instead of several. You would still be moving from the game file at one location on disk to the downloaded file on another location on the disk to the OS on yet another location on the disk. The partitions don't matter. If you are jumping from a file physically located at the edge of the platter to a file physically located near the spindle, it doesn't matter if those files are on different logical partitions. It is the same physical distance.

[[Mystic]]

ok, thank clears some things up then