tried to resize in Disk Director 11

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I have a 1.5TB with some volumes on it. The 2 two large ones are adjacent to each other.

The first of these had about 600 GB free space and the second less than 1.5GB and that was filling rapidly. So I decided to shrink the first volume and then add the free space from that volume to the second volume. I've done this sort of thing before (on smaller HDDs) and it has always worked Ok.

The first of these 2 volumes is my Windows 7 boot volume (NTFS) but as I've said this has never caused me problems in the past.

However this time things have not gone well.

Because the operation involved changes to the boot volume the process required a reboot (Exactly as these things have before). When I rebooted the process went into the Acronis boot loader. Step 1 flashed through quickly and then it proceeded to step 2.

In step 2 there was an error message that flashed up very briefly and the process aborted. The message was on the screen for such a short time I only read part of it before it vanished. It read something like "Unable to resize partition" or "Unable to complete operation " before being replaced by the message "Press any Key to reboot"

After rebooting the computer tries to boot windows but I get told that I need to use the Windows CD/dvd and attempt to repair my instillation from the recovery tools on that. I tried that thinking the boot record must have been corrupted and Windows would be able to fix that but the Windows recovery utilities say they could not find an instillation to fix.

Since the pc is dual boot I rebooted into my old XP instillation and ran up the copy of disk Director 11 I have on that and looked at the 1.5TB drive (XP is on an old 125gb drive). Where the Windows 7 boot disk was is an unformatted , unlabelled volume. This is listed as being primary and healthy but it is no longer an active partition.

This volume is as far as I can tell in EXACTLY same place and is EXACTLY the same size as the Windows 7 boot volume. This suggests to me that none of the data has actually been over written and it's just the partition record that is causing me problems.

I've downloaded run Acronis Report and have included it's report with this. Worryingly that suggests that I also have a problem with this old drive I'm booting off now.

Is there any way of getting that volume back to it's previous state? It seems a shame to have to overwrite what is essentially a complete instillation when it's probably only a problem with the Partition table or MBR.

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I have tried altering the wiring so as to boot with just the one drive in the pc in case for some reason the windows install disk was confused about which instillation I was trying to fix but this has made no difference to the results.

Sat, 08/16/2014 - 17:18
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Hi Neil,

I'm having exactly the same problem, did you find a solution yet?

If yes, thanks in advance for sharing.

Fri, 10/24/2014 - 04:05
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Hello Everyone,

the described behavior might be caused by errors on the disk, however, without an investigation it is hard to say something for sure.

Please contact our support for assistance.

Thank you.

Wed, 11/26/2014 - 07:27
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