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    Cant Partition HDD In HP Laptop 5118

    Discussion in 'HP' started by abhicool, Jun 6, 2006.

  1. abhicool

    abhicool Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi i have a peculiar problem friends
    I have been using partition magic 8 for long and it never failed me,
    Except yest when i triend to partition my mamoth 100 gb HDD.
    Please its showing the error no 983, and is stopping the partition.
    How can i overcome this?
    Please help me on this, i really dnt know what to do.
    Is It that HP doesnt allow to partition, if thats so, there can be a way to un do that right?
     
    abhicool, Jun 6, 2006
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  2. dihan

    dihan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi...

    I can't help you with Partition Magic, but i have a HP Compaq and first thing i did was to format everything and reinstall, with new partitions included. Maybe it's a compatibility issue between your Partition Magic version and that HDD in particular.

    Cheers, mate!
     
    dihan, Jun 8, 2006
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  3. abhicool

    abhicool Notebook Enthusiast

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    well i got it right,
    a visit to partition magic website solved the problem!
     
    abhicool, Jun 9, 2006
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  4. illmatic8

    illmatic8 Notebook Consultant

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    glad you fixed your problem.

    the fix for this is to run "chkdsk /f" (without quotes) in command prompt.

    that'll fix allow the drve to be partitioned by Partition Magic
     
    illmatic8, Jun 9, 2006
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