To Few Clusters On My Partition

[Krisstheking]

Today i used partition magic for my first time.

So i splited up my hdd into to parts 1:47gb 2:10gb.

But when partition magic was applying this partition this error came up:

Error! to few clusters!

press any key to reeboot. And after the reboot the computer worked well.

What is clusters? and what kind of problems can i get becasue of to few clusters?

And another problem:

When im copying files from C: to [Partition of C:]D: it took 45min to copy 6gb.

Thats very long, and something is wrong!

Please help!

Sorry for bad english

[jaclaz]

Partition Magic must have had an error while doing it.

The error you had could be:

1531 Too Few Clusters

(always jolt down error numbers, as they can identify problems much more accurately than just the message)

You could try performing a chkdsk on both volumes.

Please post more info:

1) if both partitions are primary or not

2) how they are formatted (NTFS /FAT21 /FAT16)

3) which version of Pertition Magic you used

4) every other related info you have

jaclaz

[Krisstheking]

1) Disk C: is primary, and everytime i try to make a partition of C: i get the 1531: TO FEW CLUSTERS error.

My current cluster size is 4k.

2)C: is formated with ntfs

3) I use partition magic 8.0

4) Im not so good in this harddrive part.

So please help me!

[jaclaz]

Ok,

I gather you can boot into Operating System (which one is it, by the way, Windows XP?).

Open a command prompt, and type in it:

CHKDSK

[Enter]

See what it says, if it finds any error, try typing:

CHKDSK C: /F

[Enter]

it should try and fix the errors in the filesystem.

Try again with PM8 and post results.

jaclaz