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