Uh-Oh HD problems...

[PatrickRay]

I recently acquired PartitionMagic, and I had 10 gigs of unallocated space on a second hard drive with all my media on it, so I wanted to expand my logical partition (70ish gb) to fill that space. So I went into PM and tried to resize and it said it had to reboot to finish this, and it gave me all kinds of errors that I neglected to write down having to do with FAT and allocations. when i got back into windows, I couldn't see the drive in explorer, and when I try to resize it again in PM it said that "Error: 2003 file size does not match FAT allocation for file". When I browse the drive in PM browser, all my files are there, so I know it didnt delete them. Does anybody know of any way to get this drive back? Ive got lots of stuff I really need to keep on there, so it's really important to me. Another thing worth noting is that under the partition menu, the option for check disk is unable to be clicked, and when i do PM's disk checker the fix option is also disabled. I can, however, see the drive itself in hardware manager, defrag, etc, but I can't access the files from explorer. Any help GREATLY appreciated.

[sechs]

Running a chkdsk should simply restore the FAT from its backup.

You may find it safer to backup, repartition, and restore.

[roley]

Always be sure to backup your files before resizing as it sometimes stuffs up the partition info.

Disk utilites like norton disk doctor or scandisk will only make this worse. I cant remember chkdisk.

Not worth it.

Backup, then resize.

Roley
Black Frog Technologies

[PatrickRay]

So
I inadvertently f**ked up the drive letter somehow. So I just assiged it the same letter as it was before, defragged, and then resized and all is right with the world. Thanks guys.