Hi

I was merging 2 equal-sized partitions on my USB2.0
external Maxtor 80gig drive, having used Partition
Magic 8 many times with no probs ever.

It appeared to freeze during the merge process at
around 17% of total process, so I went out for 2
hours to be sure.


When I next checked it was at 24% and I again
watched it for 1/2 hour with no motion, so I assumed frozen, and rebooted
the USB
drive. Fine.

Now XP does not see the drive in windows, tho i dloaded testdisk (a dos
prog) and
it sees the second partition and provides this info:____________

TestDisk 5.3, Data Recovery Utility, May 2004

Christophe GRENIER
http://www.cgsecurity.org


Disk /dev/sdb - CHS 9964 255 63 - 78159 MB
Check current partition structure

Partition                   Start          End       Size

1 P FAT32 LBA                0   1  1  4996 254 63   80276742 [STORE 1]
2 E extended LBA          4997   0  1  9963 254 63   79794855

No partition is bootable
5 L PMagic recovery       4997   1  1  9963 254 63   79794792


[  Quit  ]
*=Primary bootable  P=Primary  L=Logical  E=Extended  D=Deleted
Quit this section
_________________________________

Upon restoring Partma 8 it says it has detected an
improper shutdown and is searching for 'recovery markers', yet it just keeps
searching
and searching.....

Any ideas??
Thx


Seph

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~S~ wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was merging 2 equal-sized partitions on my USB2.0
>  external Maxtor 80gig drive, having used Partition
>  Magic 8 many times with no probs ever.
>
> It appeared to freeze during the merge process at
> around 17% of total process, so I went out for 2
>  hours to be sure.
>
>
> When I next checked it was at 24% and I again
> watched it for 1/2 hour with no motion, so I assumed frozen, and
> rebooted the USB
> drive. Fine.
>
> Now XP does not see the drive in windows, tho i dloaded testdisk (a
> dos prog) and
> it sees the second partition and provides this info:____________
>
> TestDisk 5.3, Data Recovery Utility, May 2004
>
> Christophe GRENIER
> http://www.cgsecurity.org
>
>
> Disk /dev/sdb - CHS 9964 255 63 - 78159 MB
> Check current partition structure
>
>      Partition                   Start          End       Size
>
>  1 P FAT32 LBA                0   1  1  4996 254 63   80276742 [STORE
>  1] 2 E extended LBA          4997   0  1  9963 254 63   79794855
>
> No partition is bootable
>  5 L PMagic recovery       4997   1  1  9963 254 63   79794792
>
>
> [  Quit  ]
> *=Primary bootable  P=Primary  L=Logical  E=Extended  D=Deleted
>                                Quit this section
> _________________________________
>
> Upon restoring Partma 8 it says it has detected an
> improper shutdown and is searching for 'recovery markers', yet it
> just keeps searching
> and searching.....
>
> Any ideas??
> Thx
>
>
> Seph

Merging 2 partitions is a VERY time consuming process, so if it appears
frozen it may very well be that is is *not*...
Did you create a *backup* prior to using a complex function such as merging
2 partitions? I hope you did!

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"

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