Error 1652 when partitioning HD

[micken]

Have been cleaning up my PC and moving things from my OS system drive onto other physical drives and partitions (using Partition Magic v7.0). This is so that I can image my OS drive more efficiently using Norton Ghost 9.0. Everything has gone fine and I have reduced drive C content from 50GB to 16GB on a 60GB HD.

I finally want to leave drive C as a 25GB partition but it's not having it.

On reboot I get:

Error 1652: Bad entry in external attribute list, File 31938 (128)

I've been to MS website but they've done an inventory of their site and removed the search facility for W2K.

Can anyone either provide advice or point me in the direction of another tree to bark up?

Thanks in anticipation.

[nellie2]

They haven't removed the search function... just shifted things around a bit.

http://support.microsoft.com/ph/1131 the search window is top right

[micken]

Thanks Nellie2, your a star.

[micken]

Hi again. There was a little information on the site, putting this together with what I knew yesterday there seems to be an issue with metabase temporary files. This initially prevented me from upgrading to SP4, until I found a work around from MS.

This morning I decided to try and repartition again and it's worked! I am now backing up an image of the new OS partition. So hopefully everything is resolved.

Many thanks once again.

[jackd]

Has anyone found the underlying issue and solution to the 1652 error.

I have AMD 2500,W2K (SP4) with Western Digital 40GB drive. I have 3 partitions c 4Gb, D 18 Gb, E 18GB. I'm trying to mkae C about 7.5 Gb and Take space from D - so D becomes about 14 GB.

I have run chkdsk /f on each drive and get no errors. I have run the Western Digital diagnostics with no errors.

However, when I run Partition Magic 8 which lets me set up the resize and then does the apply on reboot. I get error 1652 bad entry in external attribute list File 26076(128).

Does anyone have any ideas on fixing this?

[jackd]

I got around my "error 1652 bad entry in external attribute list.." issue.

I went to Symantec and found an article saying to use chkdsk /F . I had tried chkdsk /f and various other tools to see if I could get more info on the problem/error. I found zilch on the net.

What worked for me is the following:

-since I had space available on my E:, I moved most of the folders and files from D: to a new folder on E: (E:\FilesFromDriveD). I was able to move most of the folders. I did leave my D:\Program Files.

- I reran PM8 to reduce the size of D:; to move the D partition such that space was freed up between C and D. I left the size of E: the same as it was.

PM8 said it was reducing the size of D; then moving D:, then expanding C. It identified these 3 general steps. It processed the 3 steps, then rebooted.

I then copied the folders from E:\FilesFromDriveD to D:

I have run NU WinDoctor; TweakNow RegCleaner and neither reported any errors.

I also ran several programs to ensure things were OK.

I think there may have been a bad attribute value, but I could not find out which file or attribute was causing the problem. I think that moving the folders and files from D: to E: temporarily must have changed a setting. Whatever the details, the size of my C: now is 8.052 Gb D: is now 16.624 Gb and E: 17.338 Gb

Hope this may be helpful to somebody. :rolleyes:

[nellie2]

Thank you, I'm sure it will! I just love it when people let us know how they managed to sort out their problems. :)