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Partition Magic Mess

by Tim Kjeldsen Aug 31, 2005 7:15AM PDT

XP Home Laptop (no floppy!) 40G HDD

Tried to resize partitions on new laptop tonight with PM7. Got an error message on the second partition (can't remember what it was now) and now I can neither see this partition in Explorer nor remove, convert, format or do anything else to it in PM. Each time I get a message ''Error #510 The version of the file system is not supported''

I've run various tests and they all say the hdd looks healthy, however, I ran Windows Setup to see if I could reformat that partition and it ground to a halt with the message ''C0000221 Unknown Hard Error SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll''. I thought this might be a corrupted dll file so I tried to restore it from the XP disk, but was told that a program was using it (presumably Windows) so I couldn't.

By a bit of manouvering, I managed to get ths offending parition reduced to 47MB and stuck at the end of the drive, so my system is more or less ok at the moment, but I want to get to the bottom of this because at present I can't run Windows Setup. There's obviously something wrong.

It's hard to believe this has happened; I've used PM for years with no problems. Perhaps PM7 does not support XP as well as it likes to think. Just a guess.

Any help will be warmly appreciated

Tim

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I agree.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 31, 2005 7:40AM PDT

You need a newer PM.

Bob

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Thought so
by Tim Kjeldsen Aug 31, 2005 7:48AM PDT

In the meantime, is there anything I can do about this? If I could get to some sort of command line outside Windows I might be able to do something. Or do you think PM8 might bail me out?

Tim

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When it gets bad...
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 31, 2005 8:33AM PDT

I usually have to install some other drive, install XP and copy the files over to the new drive then wipe the old drive and carry on.

Bob

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Isn't PM past version 8? and...
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 31, 2005 8:34AM PDT

Why do we need it?

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I've made some progress
by Tim Kjeldsen Aug 31, 2005 9:28AM PDT

Found out how to restore ntdll.dll - through the XP sfc, which I didn't know it had (doesn't advertise it, does it?), got Setup going and deleted the offending partition. I'm tempted to use PM to merge the two partitions and get rid of this pesky 47MB of unnallocated space, but once bitten...

So far as I can tell, version 8 is the current one; at least, that's the one that is on all the retail web sites, and I guess we need it if we want to be able to resize partitions, which Setup won't do. Do we need to do this? I would have thought so, if only for tidiness. Do you know any alternatives?

Thanks as always for your help and advice

Tim

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I use the old methods.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 31, 2005 9:42AM PDT

2 drives, copy files over after the OS install and move on. Some have their reasons to keep beating on a failed OS but I count the time I spend on such and move to the fastest fix.

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/ notes its version 8.0

Bob

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