I must have done something wrong with DISKMGMT
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My work laptop has one hard drive, but I've been wanting to partition it so I can have my work separate from the operating system (Windows 7). Today I finally got around to trying it. A quick online search provided instructions for using Disk Management to shrink a partition, create a new partition, assign a drive letter, format it. I did all that. It looked good. I moved a bunch of files from C to F (the new partition). And it was good. Until I rebooted. After rebooting, the F drive (partition) shows as RAW (instead of NTFS) and the system says it needs to be formatted. I know I put files there, so I hesitate to reformat. More searching hasn't turned up a solution. Going on the idea that maybe the letters for the partitions on a physical drive have to be consecutive, I reordered the letters so now the new partition is D, but that didn't help. For a while the DVD drive (previously was D, now E) was also acting strange, but it seems OK now. Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone point to a solution? I guess I'll reboot again. Edit: I still don't know what went wrong or how to fix it, so this morning I bit the bullet and reformatted. This time things seem OK. It survived a reboot and I'm restoring files again.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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My work laptop has one hard drive, but I've been wanting to partition it so I can have my work separate from the operating system (Windows 7). Today I finally got around to trying it. A quick online search provided instructions for using Disk Management to shrink a partition, create a new partition, assign a drive letter, format it. I did all that. It looked good. I moved a bunch of files from C to F (the new partition). And it was good. Until I rebooted. After rebooting, the F drive (partition) shows as RAW (instead of NTFS) and the system says it needs to be formatted. I know I put files there, so I hesitate to reformat. More searching hasn't turned up a solution. Going on the idea that maybe the letters for the partitions on a physical drive have to be consecutive, I reordered the letters so now the new partition is D, but that didn't help. For a while the DVD drive (previously was D, now E) was also acting strange, but it seems OK now. Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone point to a solution? I guess I'll reboot again. Edit: I still don't know what went wrong or how to fix it, so this morning I bit the bullet and reformatted. This time things seem OK. It survived a reboot and I'm restoring files again.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
Sounds very strange. I have never had a problem doing that; indeed I did it on 2 Windows 7 Professional systems only recently, with no problems. However I did not do (and never have done) it direct from
diskmgmt, but by right-clicking"My Computer"and accessing the plugin from the management console. Don't know why or if that would make any difference. I know (you did, didn't you?) you backed up those files before copying them to the new partition. -
My work laptop has one hard drive, but I've been wanting to partition it so I can have my work separate from the operating system (Windows 7). Today I finally got around to trying it. A quick online search provided instructions for using Disk Management to shrink a partition, create a new partition, assign a drive letter, format it. I did all that. It looked good. I moved a bunch of files from C to F (the new partition). And it was good. Until I rebooted. After rebooting, the F drive (partition) shows as RAW (instead of NTFS) and the system says it needs to be formatted. I know I put files there, so I hesitate to reformat. More searching hasn't turned up a solution. Going on the idea that maybe the letters for the partitions on a physical drive have to be consecutive, I reordered the letters so now the new partition is D, but that didn't help. For a while the DVD drive (previously was D, now E) was also acting strange, but it seems OK now. Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone point to a solution? I guess I'll reboot again. Edit: I still don't know what went wrong or how to fix it, so this morning I bit the bullet and reformatted. This time things seem OK. It survived a reboot and I'm restoring files again.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
I never had such experience, but you may grab a partitioning software (not the one of Microsoft) that build specifically for that and try to fix it...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Sounds very strange. I have never had a problem doing that; indeed I did it on 2 Windows 7 Professional systems only recently, with no problems. However I did not do (and never have done) it direct from
diskmgmt, but by right-clicking"My Computer"and accessing the plugin from the management console. Don't know why or if that would make any difference. I know (you did, didn't you?) you backed up those files before copying them to the new partition.Richard MacCutchan wrote:
backed up those files
It was mostly my TFS working copy, so restoration is simple. I had begun altering config files and such to point to F: rather than C: and I'll have to make those changes again.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
