Partitioning Problems

[Davver]

Hi Vin, Dave here, chris' mate!

Just after a hint from ya!

I installed partion Magic (Powerquest) and now it's failing to initialise. I get a 504 error, which I know there's a file missing. So, what I did is uninstall it and reinstall it but it's still buggered.

I have 4 partitions but have found I'm only using 2. I want to reclaim the space and have a my 30gig Master drive for operating system and my 160gig drive for storage and maybe XP on that drive so they don't interact with eachother.

What I need to know, before I go and buy another copy of PM is, is there any other way of reclaiming this space through windows? I'm still searching myself but I'm not pulling out the goods in this pool xalled the internet!

Hope you can throw me a frikkin bone here lol

Cheers bud

Davver

[NHH]

Hi Dave...

Try this on for size.....

Goto Start, Run and type in 'regedit' then click OK.

In the registry browse to the following....

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\

In session manager (to the right) you should have an entry called 'BootExecute' which shows as type 'REG_MULTI_SZ' with a data string of 'autocheck autochk *'.
If that isn't there then create it by right clicking on an empty bit, select 'New', 'Multi String Value', then type in the 'BootExecute' as a name. Then double click on the new entry and enter 'autocheck autochk *' in the value area and click OK

Then reboot and try PM again.

Then again you may have had the value in there anyway in which case ignore me and carry on reading....

Another good partioning program is 'Paragon Partition Manager' which can do all sorts of wonderful things to partitions but it ain't free and the demo can't resize partitions but maybe you could find a friend[/b] who has a copy.
There aren't many freeware programs that can resize NTFS partitions (that's what you're likely to have with 2000/XP) and those few aren't exactly user freindly.