You could convert it to a primary partition with something like partition wizzard (free version).
But I would never suggest that until after all your data is backed up.
I didn't even notice that when looking at your screenshot of ptedit. Windows will not let you make a logical drive active, thats why you don't get that option in disk management.
You also have a odd gap of free space before the first partition.
I would finish your project and backup all that data. Then you can convert the partition and create another one for windows 7 or wipe the disk and stat over, whatever you feel is easier.
To answer one of your other questions, imaging your system will work fine even with a dual boot.
All my systems dual boot and I have no trouble using Ghost 15 on them.
Off topic but this is how I started out with multi-booting. I had about 10 WinXP in ten logical volumes and I used BING to allow for hidden sectors and to make the relevant logical volume Active.
My first experiance with a third party boot manager was with XP because I had to boot them from logical drives and didn't have an operating system that was always the C drive to hold the boot files.
It was during the beta program for XP. At the time we only knew the code name "Whistler", thats why some of the builds here are labeled "WH".
At one time I had 5 different builds of what would become XP and was comparing them to 2 different builds of Windows 2000.
I also had a couple installs of windows 98se and on a dare I added windows ME.
I've backed up the 200 GB of data and am going remove the partitions and reformat the drive. I have one more question regarding Partition Magic. But first, should I mark this solved since I got my PQrP partition back after following your advice and start new thread?
If you would be so kind as to advise me on whether or not I should use PM to set up the dual boot (maybe triple boot) that I am headed for? And best way to do it? I'm headed for an XP no service pack, XP service pack 2 or 3, and Windows 7 system.
Let me know if I should start a different thread if I'm off topic and I'll provide more details of what I imagine I'll be doing.
I wouldn't use PM if you are going to have Win7. PM isn't 2048 sector aware and could make your Win7 non bootable. Dave and I use different methods of multibooting. I use BootIt BM.
hello Biran can you help me I have the same problem I try to resize C disk because I have space on D... than fall and I have this situations with my drive E what to do???
And what to do to back again my E dirve (Disc1 os one more disc and he is ok) disc 2 I guess is disc that I have problem???
Your Disk 1 is Dynamic. I don't use Dynamic Disks so I can't help there but you have a PQRP inside an extended partition on Disk 2. We need to see inside the extended partiition so on your PTEdit for Disk 2 can you click Goto EPBR and post a screenshot of the new window.
"""In slot 2 the partition type is 3C which is PQRP. You will note it is the Active partition (booting files) with Boot 80. I assume this partition should be NTFS. Click in the 3C box, click Set Type, choose 07 (NTFS), OK, Save Changes, Yes. Reboot. Is it OK now?""""
Your images haven't been approved for viewing yet (although you can see them). Can you recall the sizes of your D: and E: partitions? How much data is in each partition?
What did you do in Partition Magic? A Resize or a Merge action?
Edit.... Just saw your last post. Don't do anything yet.
But please don't do it from within windows. Never work on the operating system partition from windows.
I also wouldn't use partition magic again, it s no longer supported and whatever caused the problem the first time may happen again. Partition Magic does not support vista and windows 7 offet partitions, dynamic disks, GPT partitions, or drives larger than 1.5TB in size.
There are plenty of free partition tools availible. If your familiar with Partition Magic you may want to look at Partition Wizzard.
It has a free version availible as well as a free bootable CD. Use the bootable CD to work on your OS partition outside of windows.
As always, you should also do a full image or backup of your data before making any changes to your operating system partition and it really helps to do a thorough defrag and chkdsk first.
That 14 GB is unallocated space. Unpartitioned free space. It needs to be adjacent to the OS partition. Use Dave's suggested app to do this and then resize the OS partition.
