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I tried resizing drive C: (I have one hard drive consisting of 2 logical drives C: and D:)using partition magic 8; after partition magic rebooted the system hung with "verifying DMI pool data" and won't go any further i.e. boot into windows. I have tried attatching thr hard drive to my other PC as a slave; I can see it in windows explorer but when I click on it windows explorer says "the disk in drive I: is not formatted, do you want to format it now?".
How can I recover this drive? Is it safe to do a sys c:? (when back in its original machine) or FDISK /mbr? or should I use a program like TestDisk?
"verifying DMI pool data" may be problem in (memory card) RAM. remove the RAM and fix it again correctly....
for the format of I: Right click on My computer select Manage, Select Disk Managaement , their you will find free or unformated space Right on I: which is in Green color click Format and follow the further procedures.
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You may be able to retrieve your data using file recovery software. Good luck. There is a link in the orange square at top right of the page.
Lesson learned about backing up your valuable data BEFORE attempting something as dangerous as resizing partitions. The web is full of tales of woe from people who have lost data using PM.
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Just remmber it's not the fault of PM8. PM8 warned you to first BACKUP your data off the HD before you try it.
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I would try fdisk/mbr first to remove the other boot info.. That might get you back up and running,If not try f8 at startup, then try system restore...
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Hold on. I doubt the "verifying DMI pool data" problem has anything to do with using PM. It's likely to be either a hardware problem or a problem with your BIOS settings. Put the HDD back in the PC that you took it from, use the ClearCMOS jumper to reset the BIOS, then bootup & immediately reconfigure the BIOS settings. Save & exit, then see if PM completes the partition changes.
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You get "verifying DMI pool data" and then a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner when the boot drive doesn't have a mbr.
This is totally normal and DOES relate to repartitioning.
First step would be to boot to recovery console and run chkdsk. No switches. You want to see if you have a corrupt file system. Let's hope not.
If no errors proceed to a repair install. This will repair the boot record/pointers and restore the OS to install defaults without touching the data.
If you get errors you need to put the drive in another system and do data recovery/copy off your data files you want.
Then put it back in the original system and go to recovery console and run chkdsk /r. Then do a repair install.
You may need to reinstall apps and then restore your data. Then you should be fine.
PS. never expand into space occupied by data. Much safer and better success to wipe the 2nd partition [make it raw] and then expand c: into it.
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Probably the most important thing is to try and recover your data before you do something that might make things worse. I suggest removing the drive and attaching it as a slave, or USB drive to another system. Then using a file recovery program.
Here are a couple of free file recovery options:
PC Inspector (freeware)
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinsp...Zero assumption Recovery
http://www.z-a-recovery.com
The demo is limited
It will only recover 'up to' four folders per run
But you can make multiple runsBut doesn't PM also recommend creating a recovery floppy?
Also making backups should be a part of your daily routine.
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thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated. I've managed to get back drive c: by reinstalling windows then selecting the recovery option! I've lost the second logical partition (drive D:)but it didn't matter because there was no important data on it, all my photos and word documents are on drive C: and have been recovered -few.
Thanks again everybody.
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next time, you should use a better partition software, like EASEUS Partition Manager, http://www.partition-tool.com , Partition Magic is too old to run the new windows versions.
You may use some software to repair the partition table, I think Partition Table Doctor should be one of your choices.
http://www.
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