Problems with partitioning

speedyink

speedyink

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I partitioned 40 gb for my Vista install, and I realized that I don't need that much space for Vista, and 20 gb will be fine. I'm using Partition Magic 8.0, and when I try to resize the drives so that The Vista drive is only 20gb, I get an error "Bad boot sector" and it cancels. When I try to merge the partitions back into one partition, I get the error "Too few clusters". So now I'm stuck with 40gb on a seperate partition that can't be merged back into C:. How can I fix this?
 
geek 0001 said:
what?
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what do you mean what? it was a normal sentance written in standard english

So now I'm stuck - meanign cant get out of...
with 40gb on a seperate partition - meaning he has a 40Gb partition on the drive
that can't be merged back into C: - that cant be merged with C:/
How can I fix this? - well, how can he fix it.

Did i really have to deconstruct that sentence for you, or was your post just a moentary lapse of brain activity....??

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In reply to the question, i suggest, you backup all your data and performa a full hard drive format, this will earase all partitions and everything on the drive. Then you can start from scratch and install windows etc....

dragon
 
All right, well in order to that I would have to burn the backup partition to a DVD or something...hmmm, well I'll wait until Vista comes out, then do a full format, then install vista. It doesn't seem worth it to do that when all I want to do is move 20gb to C:. I don't know why the hell I would be getting the "too few clusters" error. Where did all my clusters go!?!?
 
Partition Magic is annoying in the way that it finds some reason not to do something then doesn't tell you which partition is at fault.

If it's the Vista partition, you could try deleting it and then merge some of the now unallocated space back into your main C: partition. Of course, this would mean reinstalling Vista.

If it's the C: drive that it doesn't like, try running chkdsk. Windows will complain about it being in use and schedule a check for the next reboot. Hopefully this will make the error message go away. If not, the next thing to try would be to boot the Vista CD, go into the recovery console and run these two commands:

Code: 
fixmbr
fixboot

Hope this helps.
 
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