PartitionMagic and disappearing partition in XP

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Rob

Hi,

Can anyone advise on the following:

System before:
30MB boot partition
10GB NTFS (XP)
10GB FAT32

I wanted to expand the FAT32 drive, and used PartitionMagic 8.0. Before
starting the resize, PM decided there was an error on the partition
(error 2005 - lost cluster) and aborted. The E: drive (corresponding to
the FAT32 partition) promptly disappeared from XP.

The data seems fine (I ran TestDisk and can browse the files), and XP
itself recognises the drive (My Computer->Manage->Disk management shows
the correct partition, but does not allow any operations on it). PM
also recognises the partition, but refuses to do any operation on it
because it has a lost cluster. It says to run scandisk on it first, but
of course scandisk doesn't recognise the partition, so won't scan it!

Any ideas?

Rob.
 
Rob said:
Hi,

Can anyone advise on the following:

System before:
30MB boot partition
10GB NTFS (XP)
10GB FAT32

I wanted to expand the FAT32 drive, and used PartitionMagic 8.0.
Before starting the resize, PM decided there was an error on the
partition (error 2005 - lost cluster) and aborted. The E: drive
(corresponding to the FAT32 partition) promptly disappeared from XP.

The data seems fine (I ran TestDisk and can browse the files), and XP
itself recognises the drive (My Computer->Manage->Disk management
shows the correct partition, but does not allow any operations on
it). PM also recognises the partition, but refuses to do any
operation on it because it has a lost cluster. It says to run
scandisk on it first, but of course scandisk doesn't recognise the
partition, so won't scan it!

Any ideas?

Rob.
Click to expand...

Tell me how you ran a CHKDSK (so no scandisk(!)) in XP?
If that partition (I assume a logical one) disappears from XP, how does PM
8.0 identify it? As a FAT32 that got rid of a drive letter or as a PqRP?
If it is the first, you may want to reassign it a drive letter and directy
after that run a CHKDSK in a DOS command window:
1. Start
2. Execute
3. cmd [Enter]

chkdsk <drive letter:> /f
exit

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Tell me how you ran a CHKDSK (so no scandisk(!)) in XP?
If that partition (I assume a logical one) disappears from XP, how does PM
8.0 identify it? As a FAT32 that got rid of a drive letter or as a PqRP?
Click to expand...


Ok - I was being dumb. Turns out PM unattached the drive letter from
the partition without warning and I had to manually reassign E: to it in
the disk management. It appears to be happy now.

Thanks for the help.

Rob.
 
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