Family Photos - Resize Disk Created Unformatted Partition - Disk Director 11 Home Update 2
A couple of days ago I attempted to resize two adjacent volumes on a single physical drive - as I have done many times before - in order to add some capacity to my 'family photo drive'.
The first partition was to be made smaller by 10GB in order to 'give' this capacity to the second partition. There were no obvious errors showing on either partition prior to the re-size attempt.
After rebooting, the message stated that the resize had failed due to "bad blocks". Here are the three relevant Acronis DD Logs:
"Log Entry Details
Type: Error
Date and time: 10/03/2017 14:04:30
Code: 3,539,345(0x360191)
Module: 54
Owner: Steve E Crane
Message:
Unable to resize partition with bad blocks
Additional info:
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Error code: 401
Module: 54
LineInfo: B8927DFC4B593CDC
Message: Failed to execute the command in the environment.
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Error code: 402
Module: 54
LineInfo: 490DC54208ACB930
Message: Fdisk operation has failed.
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Error code: 703
Module: 54
LineInfo: 90921B07B1F5C0F9
Message: Corrupted file system.
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Error code: 12310
Module: 16
LineInfo: 007AFFF41AEF4EAD
Message: Failed to resize the volume.
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Error code: 1036
Module: 16
LineInfo: C57F4C2FE4F70A6A
Message: Corrupted file system.
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Error code: 35
Module: 7
LineInfo: 5738609E19DFE50E
Message: Unable to resize partition with bad blocks
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Acronis Knowledge Base: http://kb.acronis.com/errorcode/
Event code: 0x00360191+0x00360192+0x003602BF+0x00103016+0x0010040C+0x00070023"
"Log Entry Details
Type: Information
Date and time: 10/03/2017 14:04:30
Code: 3,538,944(0x360000)
Module: 54
Owner: Steve E Crane
Message:
Resizing volume
Volume description:
Disk: 3
Letter: P
Label: P_Pictures-Maxtor6B200P0
Size: 49.96 GB -> 59.96 GB
File system: NTFS"
"Log Entry Details
Type: Information
Date and time: 10/03/2017 14:04:30
Code: 3,538,944(0x360000)
Module: 54
Owner: Steve E Crane
Message:
Resizing volume
Volume description:
Disk: 3
Letter: V
Label: V_Video-Maxtor6B200P0
Size: 119.93 GB -> 109.93 GB
File system: NTFS"
I tried to gain 'direct' support for this problem but I could not find Disk Director 11 Home Edition in the drop-down menu provided when I attempted to register my issue, so I've had to resort to community support instead.
This drive has 15,000+ family photos on it, from when my daughter was born until present day - consequently it has MASSIVE emotional significance to me and my family and I would dearly like to employ the best techniques, tools and methodologies in order to recover the entire 14-years of content from this drive.
P L E A S E H E L P ! ! !

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Are there no backups of these precious files anywhere else? I hate to make things worse for you, but if these are critical files, backups should be taken regularly to give you avenues to recover from. What would you do if the disk just failed on you or the computer caught on fire if there was no backup?
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don't do anything that involves writing to the disk to avoid causing further problems
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