Resizing partitions

[Pringle]

I'm running 2 partitions on my laptop, my large partition has windows and various games on, my smaller partition (7 gig) has FS9 on and thats it. I recently downloaded the canaries scenery and realised I was running low on space. After getting partition magic to try and resize my first partition to give extra space to my FS9 partition I get an error of;

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Error 1529: Information mismatch in directory entry

I have googled around and found one main solution. This being to run Chkdsk /f to sort the errors out. I tried this in the cmd line and I get told my drive cannot be locked to fix the errors. After running the windows based one (Which goes into DOS) it doesn't seem to find any errors.

My question is, how do I resize my partition when I keep getting the above error and the only solution I have found is not working?

I might have to start selection which aircraft I keep if this doesn't work :sad:

[ianhind]

This being to run Chkdsk /f to sort the errors out. I tried this in the cmd line and I get told my drive cannot be locked to fix the errors.

When I try chkdsk /f (or if you want to be specific about the drive chkdsk c: /f), it shows it cannot lock the drive BUT offers to do this on reboot.

Have you done that?

[Pringle]

Yeah, I choose Y and it just sits there.

[ianhind]

I just checked and yes it does that.

But what it is doing is setting a flag.

When I restarted my PC it did the chkdsk during the Windows start up process.

Ian

[petermcleland]

This being to run Chkdsk /f to sort the errors out. I tried this in the cmd line and I get told my drive cannot be locked to fix the errors.

Run chkdsk /x

This will dismount the drive to check the errors...It will also fix them like the /f.

I was always under the impression that you could not resize your OS partition

[ianhind]

I was always under the impression that you could not resize your OS partition

Peter

Don't tell me that! I've been doing it for years.

I ALWAYS end up with an OS partition that is too small. Even though Program Files is on my D drive, everything seems to want to put at least a portion of its install on the C drive :sad:

So eventually a resizing is the only way to go.

Ian

[petermcleland]

Don't forget to try "chkdsk /x" instead of "chkdsk /f" :think:

[Pringle]

Unmounting it wont cause OS system problems will it?

[ianhind]

Unmounting is just the term used to indicate that the operating system has no links to files on the hard disk.

Operating systems "mount" hard disks, CDs, etc in order to access them.

Windows does this during the boot process automatically.

Hence the reason that some clean up and anti-spyware programs have to operate in Windows safe mode where fewer processes that lock the file system are operating.

So an unmounted hard disk allows access to the system files because they are not in use. In this instance to sort out a problem.

[TSR2]

Just for info, it is bad practice to resize a boot partion unless absolutely necessary. Top tip for the next time, give your C drive plenty of room.