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  User Icon decapop

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3/25/2003 3:59:09 PM


I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

Regards Phil...
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  User Icon igs2x

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5/28/2003 2:37:53 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...



try running chkdsk /f /r first then defrag the drive.
also see how much space your MFT is using,
if set to 25%
(a setting of 2 in the registry - NtfsMftZoneReservation) change it to 1 first.
reboot
now try to resize partitions
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  User Icon Halcyon-X12

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7/3/2004 12:24:06 AM


You could try running Partition Magic to resize the partition. Are you sure this particular NTFS partition is a dynamic volume?

Linux has a tool called ntfsresize made just for this, you can find it onhttp://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
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  User Icon RichyRich

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7/3/2004 8:02:55 PM


How do I find

    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by igs2x:
      QUOTE:
      Originally Posted by decapop:
      I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

      Regards Phil...



    try running chkdsk /f /r first then defrag the drive.
    also see how much space your MFT is using,
    if set to 25%
    (a setting of 2 in the registry - NtfsMftZoneReservation) change it to 1 first.
    reboot
    now try to resize partitions

How do I find this NtfsMftZoneReservation? I'm using XP Home on a Presario R3000.
I've tried to use partition magic but keep getting the same error 983.
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  User Icon msucks

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7/5/2004 2:29:30 AM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...



partition magic should do the trick
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  User Icon freianheit

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1/15/2005 1:11:15 PM


Use system tools to defrag the drive.

Next, activate chkdsk /f to check hard drive.

Reboot and run the Partition Manager to resize and create new partition for the newly available disk space for Linux installation.
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  User Icon phamdinhnguyen

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2/13/2005 9:47:23 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by freianheit:
    Use system tools to defrag the drive.

    Next, activate chkdsk /f to check hard drive.

    Reboot and run the Partition Manager to resize and create new partition for the newly available disk space for Linux installation.



HP/Compaq Laptops' hard drive apparently was configured with an unallocated "tiny" partition, size less than 8MB, and the exsistence of such partition disable PartitionMagic from doing what would have been a very common/simple task.

I wanted to install a second OS on my HP Laptop using PM80, and it repeatedly failed with 983 error. I didn't do a drive defragmentation, just a simple chkdsk /f did it all. One note: the system prompted that the drive is locked, and it'll be performed when the system restart the next time. Type "Y" when prompted with that question.

After chkdsk /f completed, restart system, then PM80 worked magically!!!
phamdinhnguyen
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  User Icon weblo

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2/27/2005 11:39:27 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by freianheit:
    Use system tools to defrag the drive.

    Next, activate chkdsk /f to check hard drive.

    Reboot and run the Partition Manager to resize and create new partition for the newly available disk space for Linux installation.



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  User Icon prawaln

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3/17/2005 12:38:04 AM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...


even i had tried to do that with partition magic 8/and pro but couldn't do. try using the older version '7'. i think it does . if not then might be some problem occured while partitioning the hard disk. esp. ntfs. i had one such experience.
try using aefdisk utility form Nagy Daniel. search for this on net.
its good and it works really well.
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  User Icon prawaln

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3/17/2005 12:46:01 AM


well i just installed linue -pcqlinux 2005.
its really messes up with system and even suse does so if u partition ur sys with boiot disk.
what type of prtitions to use and how to install most of the components?
again none of my data should go.
i hav already lost 80 ghb of invaluable data (40 gb music and rest softwares!!! really tough to download)
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  User Icon ronlein

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5/18/2005 7:19:56 AM





    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by phamdinhnguyen:
      QUOTE:
      Originally Posted by freianheit:
      Use system tools to defrag the drive.

      Next, activate chkdsk /f to check hard drive.

      Reboot and run the Partition Manager to resize and create new partition for the newly available disk space for Linux installation.



    HP/Compaq Laptops' hard drive apparently was configured with an unallocated "tiny" partition, size less than 8MB, and the exsistence of such partition disable PartitionMagic from doing what would have been a very common/simple task.

    I wanted to install a second OS on my HP Laptop using PM80, and it repeatedly failed with 983 error. I didn't do a drive defragmentation, just a simple chkdsk /f did it all. One note: the system prompted that the drive is locked, and it'll be performed when the system restart the next time. Type "Y" when prompted with that question.

    After chkdsk /f completed, restart system, then PM80 worked magically!!!
    phamdinhnguyen



Thanks all of you for this powerful advice.
I had the same problem with a hp compaq desktop.
Your hint solved it.

thanks
ronlein
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  User Icon camokiller

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5/24/2005 11:42:46 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...



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  User Icon dabombiz

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8/10/2005 6:27:43 PM


well i have the same dilemma, but my c drive is a Fat32. i try to run the ckdsk /f but it says it cannot lock up the drive. what now?
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  User Icon snipe

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9/28/2005 10:41:02 AM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...
    [I seem to have the same problem (on the same machine) as you have/had with you're Compaq Presario, did you have any luck in sorting out the problem? my machine is new so there should not be any problem that I can see. I would be grateful for any help./QUOTE]
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  User Icon hade

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10/22/2005 5:31:56 PM


    QUOTE:

    [I seem to have the same problem (on the same machine) as you have/had with you're Compaq Presario, did you have any luck in sorting out the problem? my machine is new so there should not be any problem that I can see. I would be grateful for any help./QUOTE]



I had the same problem (WinXp, PM8.0). One thing I noticed to help was to disable Automatic Protection from my Anti-virus SW (Norton Antivirus 2005). After this I was able to complete my partition operations without any problems. Just remember to use PM with care.

Cheers,

Hade
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  User Icon Digitalpimp

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11/25/2005 12:17:02 AM


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  User Icon milach

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12/3/2005 8:49:36 PM


just wanna thank phamdinhnguyen for the tip....



This post was last edited by milach on Saturday, December 03, 2005 at 8:51:38 PM.
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  User Icon bene06

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1/16/2006 8:47:01 AM


Hi,

I encountered the same problem and after I had performed chkdsk /R /R C: PartitionMagic 8 could resize the primsry partition.


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    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by phamdinhnguyen:
      QUOTE:
      Originally Posted by freianheit:
      Use system tools to defrag the drive.

      Next, activate chkdsk /f to check hard drive.

      Reboot and run the Partition Manager to resize and create new partition for the newly available disk space for Linux installation.



    HP/Compaq Laptops' hard drive apparently was configured with an unallocated "tiny" partition, size less than 8MB, and the exsistence of such partition disable PartitionMagic from doing what would have been a very common/simple task.

    I wanted to install a second OS on my HP Laptop using PM80, and it repeatedly failed with 983 error. I didn't do a drive defragmentation, just a simple chkdsk /f did it all. One note: the system prompted that the drive is locked, and it'll be performed when the system restart the next time. Type "Y" when prompted with that question.

    After chkdsk /f completed, restart system, then PM80 worked magically!!!
    phamdinhnguyen


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BENE06
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  User Icon marnik

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2/6/2006 3:00:33 PM


Just to add another comment:

I had the same problem trying to convert a 100GB NTFS partition to FAT32.
Yes, i know, why would i do THAT: because an old DOS accountancy software (aarrgg) had to run on the laptop and it could not write onto the NTFS partition.

PM8 worked

PS: now that I'm writting I think I'd better resize the NTFS and add a small FAT32 partition dedicated to for this DOS software.

Anyway... thnx for the chkdsk /f hint!

    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by ronlein:

    Thanks all of you for this powerful advice.
    I had the same problem with a hp compaq desktop.
    Your hint solved it.

    thanks
    ronlein


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  User Icon bucknodd

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3/3/2006 12:54:06 PM


Hi there,

Just found this site while at work! Don't know if anyone has given you the correct answer so here goes.
Partition magic should not be used on any OEM machine. The reason for this is there is a hidden partition for recovery purposes. This is what will be blocking any partition resize. If you do succeed in changing the partition saize and want to recover your machine then, in this case you will need to call HP/Compaq and buy the recovery media off them. This also applies to Packard Bells, Advents, eMachines, Sony's or any computer that doesn't have recovery media supplied with it.

Hope this helps Emoticon
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  User Icon sivaji007

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6/10/2006 6:13:58 AM


hello all,
goto shop and buy a new hard disc. Tha partiton ok
bye
kiss u daaaaa
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  User Icon sivaji007

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6/11/2006 9:42:09 AM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by igs2x:
      QUOTE:
      Originally Posted by decapop:
      I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

      Regards Phil...



    try running chkdsk /f /r first then defrag the drive.
    also see how much space your MFT is using,
    if set to 25%
    (a setting of 2 in the registry - NtfsMftZoneReservation) change it to 1 first.
    reboot
    now try to resize partitions


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  User Icon talk_2_raj

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10/4/2006 1:16:59 AM


can we perform resizing on primary partition using partition magic,
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  User Icon sweetka

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10/24/2006 1:59:16 PM




1. go to Start->Run->CMD
2. type in chkdsk /f and say Yes Emoticon
3. Reboot your OS

After scan disk is done try partition magic again.


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  User Icon gsinglet

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10/31/2006 2:34:10 PM


I am working on a dual boot partition machine. Once I resize my primary partition and accept changes. All is fine. Once I run ghost and attempt to place an image on that new created partition Ghost doesn't see it. It only sees the primary partition. The partition I created is not hidden any advice ?

Gel
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  User Icon fnoul

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12/4/2006 11:29:27 PM


please i have (abig) problem.
i tried to make dual-booting work with PM08
when the system tried to reboot to make the changes a black skreen apeared with cursor.
cannot write anything and do nothing.
i booted from cd windows xp and it cannot find the hard disk! it says that it is used by another program or that an operation is waited to be...
ubuntu cannot make a partition too (ubuntu cannot be installed)
what should i do for not to lose me data
i have hp laptop
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  User Icon soro88

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3/10/2007 9:09:49 AM


Hallo. I have too any problem with error 983. I have Notebook HP Pavilion, where is divided HDD on 2parts. 1part is my hdd and 2part is back-up file. Is not by chance lock (by product maker) no change size or apporation. PLS send me answer on my mail : soro88@zoznam.sk. THX

This post was last edited by soro88 on Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 9:10:10 AM.
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  User Icon magjoh

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3/16/2007 12:08:53 PM


    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...

    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...



Run chkdsk. After that, you will probably have another problem: Error 1513 Bad attribute position in file record. Go into symantec´s homepage and gett an update and a patch for your partition magic 8.0, follow the instructions install the update and the patch.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/powerquest.nsf/docid/2004038302586462?OpenDocument&lg=en&ct=us&seg=hho&src=hotsymantec


Best regards
/Magjoh
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  User Icon abouchoud

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4/21/2007 12:17:19 PM


hi
Its happening to me too !
I dont know if its valid what im saying but i went to look in the Partition magic 8 FAQ and its says
it only support windows XP SP1
could this be the prob if we have upgraded it to windows xp sp2 ???

    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by decapop:
    I cannot resize existing or add new partition. Using Partition Magic 8, all goes well until reboot to make changes. Changes fail with error 983 Too many Errors, but drive is fine. Running XP NTFS on Compaq Presario. Appears something on bootup does not allow changes but cannot find what. Any ideas??

    Regards Phil...

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  User Icon stressbattle

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6/12/2007 11:51:53 AM


See this site if your having trouble accessing your partition and files ->http://www.wareprise.com/2007/06/12/an-enterprise-file-and-partition-recovery-software

    QUOTE:
    Originally Posted by fnoul:
    please i have (abig) problem.
    i tried to make dual-booting work with PM08
    when the system tried to reboot to make the changes a black skreen apeared with cursor.
    cannot write anything and do nothing.
    i booted from cd windows xp and it cannot find the hard disk! it says that it is used by another program or that an operation is waited to be...
    ubuntu cannot make a partition too (ubuntu cannot be installed)
    what should i do for not to lose me data
    i have hp laptop

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