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Title: XP long file names
Post by Austin Lindsey on Aug 11^th, 2002 at 3:25pm

I went to Command line and found that something had changed after I had run PartitionMagic (I think). I could not log to any directory with a long file name. Previously worked. A CD\program Files bombs as not recognized. CD\Progra~1 works OK.

Part II: After PM bombed and after running thru chkdsk, scandisk and defrag I still have a 3GB unallocated partition (the amount I was hoping to expand C:. D: (on same disk) has plenty of room. The PM error was "bad file attribute"

Any suggestions on these two probs welcomed.

Austin

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Radministrator on Aug 11^th, 2002 at 10:24pm

what did u do with pm?

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Austin Lindsey on Aug 13^th, 2002 at 5:36pm

What did I do with PM? Hmmm, well I cursed it, not a lot just a little. It's sitting there on my HD, resting, until I can get some one to h.e.l.p me. PQ has not responded to my service help request. Any ideas, anyone? Austin

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Radministrator on Aug 13^th, 2002 at 5:39pm

no, i mean, what did u try to get pm to do? pm does a lot of different things. u said 'it bombed'? it bombed doing what?

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Austin Lindsey on Aug 13^th, 2002 at 5:43pm

OH gosh - see I am kludgy. I was trying to expand my 4GB C: drive by 3 more GB. I have a D: on the same disk that has plenty room. It bombed during the process with a "bad file attribute" error. IT left a 3GB unallocated sector, which I can't recover. Thanks RadMan

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Radministrator on Aug 13^th, 2002 at 8:00pm

is the c a primary partition, & the d an extended/logical?

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Austin Lindsey on Aug 13^th, 2002 at 8:10pm

I Have one hard drive. C: and D: and the unallocated segment are on that one hard drive.

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Radministrator on Aug 13^th, 2002 at 9:40pm

it's a little late now, but trouble like this with pm is not unusual.

best results come when you move off as much data as possible, defrag, and then give pm only one function to perform at a time.

in other words, if i wanted to expand my c into d territory, i would (assuming your c is a primary & your d is a logical drive in an extended partition):

1. move off as much data as possible and empty trash, delete all temp files, and ie temp files.
2. defrag both partitions & create a ghost image of c
http://ghost.radified.com/
3. shrink the d logical from the inside
4. reboot/execute operation
5. shrink the extended partition from the inside
6. reboot/execute operation
7. extend the c primary to fill the unclaimed space created by the 2 previous steps
8. reboot/execute operation

i have done this before myself, with no problems .. but i know many who weren't so fortunate.

most people try to do steps 3-8 all at once.
you want to make it as easy for pm as possible.

Title: Re: XP long file names
Post by Austin Lindsey on Aug 14^th, 2002 at 6:58am

Thanks Radministrator, but now I think I'll sitdown and cry a little. My question to nowhere is, "why don't programs you pay for, not work?" Ugh!