WinXP Partition problem

[markrowbottom]

Hope someone can help!

I recently tried to install SuSe 9.2 on my laptop which had Windows XP - The hard driver (38GB) was all formatted as NTFS.

During the SuSe install, I selected to resize the NTFS partition down to 12GB (after defragging, removing pagefile etc).

The resize operation reported errors resizing the partition so I aborted and booted back into windows to access the damage.

Right-Clicking on my C:\ driver showed that Windows thought the NTFS partition was only - Good so far. I then when into the Computer Management/Disk Management program in control panel to see what the story was - This showed in the top panel my (healthy) 12GB NTFS partition, but in the lower panal it was showing a (healthly) 38GB NTFS partition.

The only thing I can think of is that they use different machanisms for showing the size of the parition - I'm not sure if this partition should be 12GB or 38GB now.

I suspect that my Partition table or MBR are mismatched, but don't know enough to investigate/fix the issue.

On a side note, on retrying the install, SuSe still thinks I have a 38GB partition and will not resize it (it gives an error), I'm assuming because of the mismatch.

Any help on sorting my partitions out would be most appreciated.

Mark.

[GaryRouth]

Just to make sure, while you're deciding how to repair the partitions, download the hard-disk diagnostics for your hard drive (from the hard drive manufacturer's website) and run them - to make sure the drive is physically OK.

If you have good backups of your data, and don't mind spending a lot of time reinstalling things, you have the option to start fresh (with a clean install, or running a Recovery Disk set - then restoring your data). Partition Magic is adept at such tasks. SuSe 9.2 has gotten good reviews for it's partitioning tools, but then laptops are known historically to be less-well-supported in Linux.

If you happen to already own a recent copy of Partition Magic, you could try it to see if it can clear up the current trouble, and allow you to complete a successful install of SuSe 9.2 without corrupting your XP partition or data.

What did the errors say?
. . . Gary

[eXe]

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http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...oad/trueimage/

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[macko72]

Or this may help you as well:
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[kmzpub]

Active@ partition recovery tool might help you. It did really was able to restore mine corrupted partitions.