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[teknomuffin]

Alright, I'm pretty dissappointed with the "good" reputation PM8.0 had. I recieved it, and in an attempt to resize a partition on my primary hard drive, it was a success, except for one extremely major thing. The drive I had kept my 'My Documents' folder on, along with about 200GB of other information, including music, pictures, school work, etc. has been destroyed. The format is now "Type EE", which I've looked and looked online but it seems I'm the only one with this error. When I try doing anything to the drive I get an error 631. What really bugs me is that this drive wasn't even part of the freaking partition I was resizing, so why would it have been corrupt. I can't do any chkdsk or whatever because my computer doesn't recognize it, not even in Device Manager.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6149/47268811.jpg

That's an image of the drive and it's properties. I'm totally lost and I need IMEDIATE help.

[Brian_K]

teknomuffin,

Unfortunately, PM is an old product and doesn't support HDs that large.

Does your HD have a GPT? Partition type 0xEE is a protective MBR that precedes the GPT partition table.

[teknomuffin]

Uhm, I don't think it has a GPT, how could I check? I don't think it does.... The thing is, what I wanted to happen worked (the partition was resized) but the other drive that wasn't being used is messed up.

[Brian_K]

I think it does have a GPT and the protective mechanism is in place. 0xEE protects the GPT from being changed by apps such as PM. I haven't played with GPT and I'm most interested to hear how to fix it. It sounds like it is an easy fix for those who understand GPT.

[teknomuffin]

Well then, I guess if we can get someone else here, he'll be helping both of us

[Brian_K]

That's for sure.

[teknomuffin]

You know what I just realized... Why is it showing 2,000,000 MB, but I only have a 250GB drive... the one above that is right, the 238,000 MB...

[Brian_K · Accepted solution]

I missed that too. I thought it was a 2 TB HD. Maybe it's not a GPT issue.

Have a look at this thread. It's not your problem but could you post a photo of Partition Work and View MBR for that HD. You can take actual screenshots if you use a floppy.

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=other&thread.id=10963&view=by_date_ascendi...

Message Edited by Brian_K on 09-24-2009 11:09 AM

[teknomuffin]

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to hard drives, so how exactly do I get to the View MBR and Partition Work? The thread was about Windows Vista, but I have Windows XP Pro 64-bit (I should've mentioned that before). I don't currently have the discs on me because I had lent them to a friend to install... I already talked to him and should be picking them up tomorrow.

[Brian_K]

You don't need those disks.

See Message #27 for instructions.

You have 2 HDs. Where is WinXP? On the second HD? The non EE HD? Or is WinXP on the EE HD and it is usable?

 What partitions did you have on the first HD? Can you see those partitions in BootIt NG?

Message Edited by Brian_K on 09-24-2009 11:50 AM