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Invalid drive after resizing the secure zone

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I have a second hard drive d: that is partitioned as d:, e:, f:, and secure zone also. I do not have the exact sizes, but I used manage secure zone to reduce the size of the zone. I noticed that the secure zone was greyed out but I went ahead anyway. I dropped the sz from about 6.3gb to 4.4gb and shared the extra with drives e: and f:. Drive e: is fine but drive f: is invalid. I really would appreciate some help. This is my families' digital photos from about 1995 to present. Thanks.

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Some of the other forum contributors more familiar with partition problems will probably check your posting. In the meantime,

1. Don't write anything to the secure zone until your problem resolved.
2. Open Windows Disk Management and check the condition of this partition. See if a drive letter is assigned to the invalid partition. If not, re-assign f. To access Windows Disk Management, right click on the "MyComputer" icon and choose the Manage option and then choose disk management.
3. Do you have any backups of the material inside the secure zone? Storing backups of important material in dual locations is imperative. Your secure zone cannot help you if the disk fails.

4. Make additional backups now of any data within the secure zone.

Can you post a screenshot of what Disk Management shows for the drive?

Also, it may be helpful to see a screenshot of what TI shows for the drive.

Do you have any backups in the SZ? Are they visible to TI? Don't create a new backup, but can TI Validate and otherwise "see" any existing backups in the SZ? Or is the SZ corrupted too?

I have attached a screen shot of disk management. TI has a problem now I attached a screenshot of the error I get on startup. TI does not access the drive in backup mode and there is a screenshot for that. There is also a screenshot of the TI log of the partition resizing. Thanks for helping.

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In many cases, it's best to commit the changes to one partition at a time instead of grouping them into one procedure. I realize that you wouldn't be able to do that with just TI.

I would recommend that you create a sector-by-sector backup of the drive, but you would need a later version of TI (most likely). TI 10 may backup the entire F: partition since it's corrupted. You would probably need to try from the TI CD, though.

You could try running a format recovery program on F: and see if it recovers it. Running a file recovery program could also be tried, though many of those want to scan unallocated space.

Have you tried running chkdsk on F:? If so, what happens?

It's odd that F: would have become corrupted. F: only required a resize from the right side and so the data on it didn't even need to be moved.