SuperHumanly Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 I'm trying to resize & partition my main hard drive (C:\). I tried using PartitionMagic & Acronis Disk Director Suite, both of them give me either Disk not found, or cannot identify windows partition, which i'm guessing are both errors due to the fact that I have an SATA drive... So how do I partition my drive now...? Windows XP Pro 1.6GHz Core Duo 1GB DDR2 Ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janitor Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Do you have a floppy drive ? :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lant Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 You could download Gparted (a linux live cd) and boot from it - that should allow you to resize your disk (I've used it on my sata drives) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperHumanly Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 I do not have a floppy drive, or any blank cd's.... =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBfromMemphis Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 It's possible that something could be wrong with the hard drive. I've been using Acronis Disk Director for awhile now and guess what, I have a western digital 500GB hdd and Acronis detects it everytime. Aconis detects the window partition on my machine no problem. Also not every version of acronis disk director suite works with sata, get the latest version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperHumanly Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 I do have the latest version of it. Seems SATA is a huge pain in the $@& Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janitor Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 I do have the latest version of it.Seems SATA is a huge pain in the $@& Seems so.. I'm buying a IDE HDD ASAP so i can use XP without ****ing around with nLite etc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBfromMemphis Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 I do have the latest version of it.Seems SATA is a huge pain in the $@& I still think something is wrong with the drive because I've never had a problem like the one you're describing. That's just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperHumanly Posted October 13, 2007 Author Share Posted October 13, 2007 Seems so.. I'm buying a IDE HDD ASAP so i can use XP without ****ing around with nLite etc! Yeah, I was even having issues with nLite and XP/SATA, but I believe those are solved now.... I still think something is wrong with the drive because I've never had a problem like the one you're describing. That's just my opinion. That's possible, but several disk diagnostic programs reported no issues at all, maybe it's just how the computer is setup. Are you on a desktop? Because i'm on a laptop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBfromMemphis Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 I'm on a desktop, being on a laptop might have something to do with it. Has anyone tried partitioning said hard drive using Windows setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted October 13, 2007 MVC Share Posted October 13, 2007 Laptop or desktop, sata or ATA, it doesn't matter. Partition Magic (v. 8 or later) or Acronis DD should work just fine. I assume that both utilities are full retail versions and properly installed. Boot to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk /r. If you still have a problem, look in Disk Management and make sure the Drive appears normal and "healthy". Let's start there and see where we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaisinCain Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 ^ Not if they can't load the drivers for the controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted October 14, 2007 MVC Share Posted October 14, 2007 They don't need to load anything to recognize the drive from within the gui, unless he's saying it occurs when the program forces a reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperHumanly Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 It occurs on the reboot, when it's supposed to perform the actual partitioning. And I tried partitioning the drive last year when I got the laptop and got the same error. I KNOW it has to do with loading the SATA drivers....and i'm gonna try the gparted option posted above - found a spare cd-rw :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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