NTFS Partitions

[Pen]

I resised the partition on my hard disk (acer aspire 5601 laptop) using partition magic or some such

windows now sees the reduction in the D partition but the increase in C partition is invisible

using disk manager, the graphic display of the C and D partitions of disk 0 are 32 and 44 Gb respectively

however the text display of the partitions above are 18 and 44Gb respectively (this is also what explorer is seeing)

any ideas or fixes?

Pen

[Scarecrow Man]

If you are using Windows 2000 or XP with service pack 1a or lower, you may need the LBA patch. Of course we recommend upgrading to SP2 ASAP, but this can help you temporarily. http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm

What version of Windows do you use, and what service pack is installed?

I would suggest you load GParted - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

See if this program can see the missing space, or allow you to modify the partitions.

[Pen]

If you are using Windows 2000 or XP with service pack 1a or lower, you may need the LBA patch. Of course we recommend upgrading to SP2 ASAP, but this can help you temporarily. http://www.48bitlba.com/enablebiglbatool.htm

What version of Windows do you use, and what service pack is installed?

I would suggest you load GParted - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

See if this program can see the missing space, or allow you to modify the partitions.

Hi Scarecrowman

Thanks for the reply

I'm using XP pro 2002 SP2

Intel T2050 @ 1.6 Ghz

1 Gb of RAM

Everything seems to be partitioned ok it's just that windows explorer still sees C drive as it was b4 the resize

if I go to computer management, partition C is described as healthy (system) with16.47 Gb capacity and 1.5 Gb free space

( as it was before the resize)

below that in the graphic display, partition C is described as healthy (system) with 31.25 Gb NTFS

Partition D is displayed as circa 43Gb in both volume description and in the graphical display.

So I seem to have lost 16 Gb of disk space on the C partition which is where i obviously need it, hence the re-size operation

Any further ideas?