Re-partition problem

Hello.

I have 3 partitions on my 20GB drive,
C - 9.5GB,
E - 4GB, and
F - 6GB with D being a Zip drive.

I deleted about 3GB of data off of my F partition and wanted to move 2 GB of the free space back to my C drive. I used Partition Magic 7 which has worked flawlessly before.

Upon completing, I received an error message talking about lost clusters or something. When I rebooted, the F drive was reduced sucessfully, but the C drive did not receive the additional space, meaning I lost 3GB. I now report 8.5,4,4 instead of 11.5,4,4 that I would expect.
I've read info about 8GB maximum but, I have had larger partitions before, and my bios is up to date to support large disks.

I ran scandisk on C in Windows, and I found some lost files, but it did not fix the size.

Any other ideas?

Recent changes are that I installed a cd-rw. Setup is :
Primary Master - 20GB HDD
Primary Slave - CD-ROM
Secondary Master- CD-rw
Secondary Slave - 250 ZIP

Other note: since the cd-rw installation, it takes an additional 30 seconds to boot as the delay is waiting for the HDD detection phase which used to be instantaneous.

Ideas?

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ATHLON 750, GA-71XE, 256 SDRAM, 20 GB 7200 Maxtor, 32 MB G400, SB Live, win98se, Centurytel DSL

the simplest solution would be to merge all your partitions to C:, and then recreate your partitions as needed...

well? cdroms chained to slave on the master will slow things down. Might try not using the zip for now.

Set the master hd as master no slave.

Secondary: cd as master and cd/rw as slave.
then reintroduce the zip later as pri. slave.

make sure things work as you introduce the new settings in bios hd configurations. mach

Thanks for the replies.

Udate on the patition. Going back into PM7, the space was moved to the primary partition, but was unallocated. (why I don't know) I had to assign it a drive letter, then let PM merge the two into one, thus achieving the desired result. No harm done.

As far as the drive setup, everything I have read says to have the CD-RW as the Master unless you only have one IDE channel. Plus, the setup is from earlier VDr. advice so I know its right. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/

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ATHLON 750, GA-71XE, 256 SDRAM, 20 GB 7200 Maxtor, 32 MB G400, 52X Creative, 16X VeloCD, SB Live, win98se, Centurytel DSL

mrman, there's no right and wrongs with where you put your HDD & Cdrw etc (apart from HDD Pri master), sometimes its just trial and error.

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