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DD10 Resize Partition Error - not enough memory (0x70002)

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Running DD10 on my XP SP3 machine with 4MB of RAM.
Trying to resize partition 1 (increase size) on a 200GB IDE data HD with 3 partitions
Using wizard in Windows
Said to use free space on partition 3
Runs through pending operations, then aborts on error 0x70002, not enough memory
Never seen this before, always runs fine
Disk has been recently formatted and partitons created with DD10
What's my problem? How do I fix it?
Thanks.
Ron

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Hello Ron!

Thank you for reporting about the issue!

There can be several reasons for this issue, but before we start the investigation I would like to suggest you a workaround: perform the operation from the Bootable Media CD.

Please download the latest Bootable Media from your account and burn it onto the CD. After that please boot your machine from it and perform the resizing in the following manner: decrease the size of the partition you would like to share the space from. Commit changes (this will provide you with certain unallocated space on the drive). Add this unallocated space to the drive you would like to increase and commit changes.

After that please boot into Windows and check in the Disk Management whether everything is exactly how you needed. I would appreciate if you could kindly keep us posted regarding this question. This will allow us to provide you with further assistance if necessary.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!

Yana,
Thanks for your suggestion.
Actually, I had already downloaded and burned the ISO boot disk, booted up with it, attempted the resize operation and watched progress after my commit for an hour. Bt the projected time was still 5 hours and I couldn't have my computer held captive for that amount of time.
So, it looks like the process was proceeding properly from the boot disk. What does that tell you about the error I was getting in Windows?
Does that amount of time seem reasonable? It seems like I've done that job on other disks in less time, but this one is on my IDE channel and the others on my SATA channel.

Hello Ron,

The amount of time needed for the operation seems correct, since IDE interface is slower than SATA one, and Disk Director needs to move some amount of data to resize the partitions.

As for the issue itself: as Yana mentioned, there are several reasons of that error. Could you please check the disks for errors?

- Go to the Command Prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd)
- Enter the command: "chkdsk DISK: /r"
where DISK is the partition letter you need to check. Please note, that checking the C: drive may require you to reboot the machine.

Please reply to this thread if you need any further assistance.

Thank you.

Had the same "not enough memory " problem with DD10, XP SP3 machine with 4MB of RAM.
The disk to be partitioned was checked for errors and proved to be fine.
So my solution was to restart Windows in safe mode (press F8 while Windows starts up) and run DD10. And it works! So I hope this simple workaround could be useful to somebody.