I recently increased a partition by taking away space form the adjoining partition. I did this on a Tuesday. All went fine. On Thursday I realized I needed still more space on the enlarged partition, so went through the resize process again. This time, the reduced partition lost the drive volume and folder names. They now appear as random characters, and cannot be accessed. There's plenty of room left on this partition (900mb used on a 7gb partition), it looks like the FAT table got compromised. Any suggestions?

Did you reboot after running PM this second time?

Actually, I rebooted twoice. Once when PartitionMagic went into a DOS mode to apply the change, then a second time later. Upon the second boot, I saw a brief windows message appear about the partition in quesiton, but it came & went too quickly to read. As an aside, I've used partitionmagic many times without incident.

You needed to defragment your HD before using Part magic. Unfortunately me thinks your OS has gone bye bye. i think your best chance would be to run the scanreg/fix command before the OS boots up

THanks for the response, Joe (and a belated thanks to Curious George). I ran Scanreg, but do not believe this to be a registry issue. There are no programs on this partition. It actually exists on a secondary drive. I believe that the FAT table got broke, but am not certain. I can't think of anywhere else that the folder names might reside (although the actual directory tree looks fine, it's the names that do not display properly in Windows Explorer). When I try to open any folders, the error message tells me that the specific path does not exist, probably because of the compromised name. I also cannot rename the folders or drive name back to what they were... they're not accessible to Explorer. Any other ideas, besides a retroactive backup?:)

FOr any interested party: I just dropped $30 for PartionMagic Tech Support, this is a problem that cannot be fixed. I was instructed to use PM to delete this partition & then recreate it.