Partition & Drive Volume Errors

[Jay_Stealth]

ok ive got a western digital 250 gig caviar sata 7200rpm drive. im running windows xp but it only picks it up as 232mb.

2nd problem is i want to partition the drive, when i try to resize the partition (theres only 1) and intall another partiton or if i simply resize it alone, when i reboot for partition magic to apply changes it comes up with the error something like drive flagged for non directory or something to that extent. this is really annoying because i want to install xp 64 bit edition and i cant because i cant create this new partition. any ideas?

[XtremeMaC]

well its pretty normal for xp to say 232gb, wait is that a typo, 232MB? if its mb u've some problems but if its gb its pretty normall

can u post a screenshot of what the error is?

also is your computer 64bit xp enabled? i mean your hardware...

if u're going to resize your partition i highly recommend u to first defragment your hdd and check your hdd for errors, if u don't do those you'll lose lots of information...

try another program maybe? acronis partition xpert?

[Jay_Stealth]

Yeah its gb was a typo sorry. I've ran checkdisk from dos and its found no errors. I've also ran O+O Defrag Server edition and my drive is fine and yes i have a amd 64 bit athlon with MSI Neo Platinum Mobo ill try the other software.