Laptop partitioning problem

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loom91

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Hi,

I recently bought a HP laptop with Intel Core Duo 1.73 GHz processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 100GB HDD and nVidia GO 7400 video card. It came preinstalled with Windows XP Home. But there was a problem. After keeping 10GB for a partition called HP_RECOVERY and 1GB more in a unnamed and hidden partition, the rest is all dumped into a single NTFS partition C.

When I tried to re-size the C partition to a smaller size using PartitionMagic (only 13 GB were in use so there was plenty of free space) the computer rebooted, windows loaded, PM started partitioning and then midway through Checking user entries came up with an error message and aborted. This repeated several times. What can I do to split the drive space into smaller partitions? Thanks a lot.

Molu
 
Try acronis disk director, worked for me when i had to partition a removable disk. If that doesnt work, try just using the XP CD, although you may lose your data that way...
 
I managed to solve the problem myself. Just ran chkdsk, it found a couple of errors in the index (on a brand-new hard drive!) corrected them and then partitioning went fine. Thanks anyway!

Molu
 
For future reference, one can also use a Linux Live! disk such as DSL or Knoppix and repartition the drive via fdisk. You must leave teh hidden partition alone if you want to keep the recovery and installation files, however.
 
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