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Hi guys
I need help creating another partition. i use partition magic 8.0 and i was resizing the partition, when it finish i restart the computer and goes through the process of resizing it. While resizing the partition i get an error #27 and it says that it cannot lock the Hard drive. Maybe you guys can help me out with this.
Do you already have more than 1 partition on the HD? I just went through this a few days ago and as it turned out the D: partition I was trying to resize had some system files on it and wouldn't unlock.
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no, there is only partition. I am out of option on what other software to use. I even try grub and lilo still the same problem i am not sure what could it be. My computer is a presario 2580Us and i have not able to figure it. the problem with mine is that cannot lock the HDD when it is going through the process of creating a partition.
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Without seeing how you set up Pm I can't help. Maybe someone else may have an idea. Good luck. BTW, always backup before using PM. It has been known to trash a partition.
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ok What will be the best way to setup partition magic. Is there a way i can set it up that will allow me to create the partition and thanks in advance for the help.
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I would like to help you, but am afraid I could do more damage than good. Suggest you read the help file in PM for the error. Rgds.
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i m here not to help solving juan's problem but asking similar question since i have quite similar question to ask.
now my hdd now is divide to 2 partition, 40GB each.
now i would like to resize my partition(OS partition) from 40G to 15G.
any one can help me? i totally no experience in resizing parition.
and where the 25G will go if i resize my sysem partition. create a new partition for it or joint it with the exist partition.
i don't have any partition magic. i only got XP system disk. but as i know, XP seems only got 2 options in partitioning, create n delete partition
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Whoopee-e- you will need a third party program such as PM. I understand there are free one's available from the net, but have never used them. Should you decide to do this, backup first and be very careful. You can trash the system.
Juan- I looked up the error message #27. It says PM cannot lock the drive if it has files in use on the partition. It doesn't give a solution but maybe you can get one from the PM website.
I think you will probably have to shrink C: drive first then go back and create a new partition from the unallocatted space.
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"Shrink" meaning resize it to the size you want then create a new partition in the space left after the resize.
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Juan,
How exactly are you creating the new partition. First of all, you need to resize the C partition to make room for the newly created partition(s).
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First i resize the partition and then restart the computer and still gave me the error 27. I am still looking on google to see if there is a solution to it.
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You say you restart the computer. You must let PM do it's thing on the resize. It will restart the machine. Then create the new partition.
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yes that's what i was trying to say. I just let PM do it things and still same error. When it restart the windows screen comes up first were you see the loading bar passing through and then PM and still i get the error.
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