Changing a Drive Letter, Retesting Bad Sectors | Norton Abrasives 8

Changing a Drive Letter

The Change Drive Letter operation lets you change the drive letter assigned to any partition visible to and supported by Windows NT/2000/XP. If you are running Windows 9x or Windows Me, this operation is not available.

1Select the partition whose drive letter you want to change.

You cannot use this operation to change the drive letter for your CD drive.

IMPORTANT! You should not change the drive letter originally assigned to the Windows NT/2000/XP boot partition (the partition where Windows is installed). Changing the drive letter to anything but its original designation will cause severe boot problems and may cause your computer to be unbootable.

2Click Partition ➤ Advanced ➤ Change Drive Letter. The Change Drive Letter dialog appears.

3In the New drive letter box, type or select the drive letter you want to assign to the partition.

4Click OK.

Retesting Bad Sectors

The Bad Sector Retest operation lets you check sectors on FAT or FAT32 partitions that have been marked bad and recover sectors that are usable.

The FAT and FAT32 file systems allocate disk space for file storage in units called clusters, which are composed of a fixed number of sectors. Because the FAT or FAT32 file system tracks bad sectors at the cluster level, it marks an entire cluster bad even

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Contents

PartitionMagic Norton PartitionMagic User Guide Copyright Notice Iii Page Page Page Table of Contents Completing Advanced Disk Operations Using PartitionMagic Utilities Index What Is PartitionMagic? New Features Introduction Getting Started This chapter includes the following information Installing PartitionMagic under Windows PartitionMagic System RequirementsOperating System Minimum RAM Minimum Processor Creating Rescue Disks To create rescue Disks from Do this Click Start Programs Norton PartitionMagicPartitionMagic 8.0 Tools Create Rescue Disks Click Tools Create Rescue Disks on the menu bar Before Running PartitionMagic PartitionMagic Disk Running PartitionMagic Running PartitionMagic from Rescue Disks Command Line Switches Switch Description Setting a Password for PartitionMagic Click General Set Password. The Set Password dialog appears Uninstalling PartitionMagic Entering a PasswordChanging a Password Click General Set PasswordPage PartitionMagic Basics PartitionMagic Main Window Disk Map Rescue Disk Main Window Partition List Process Overview PartitionMagic USB, USB2, and FireWire Support Selecting a Hard Disk and PartitionRemovable Media Support Selecting an Operation Undoing an OperationDynamic Disks Viewing Pending Operations Applying Changes to Your System Applying Changes in Windows vs. Boot Mode Supported File SystemsPartition Type Description Extended Extendedx Changing PartitionMagic Preferences Allow 64K FAT Clusters for Windows NT/Windows 2000/XP Skip Bad Sector Checks Using International Keyboards Set as Read-Only for PartitionMagic Defragmenting a Hard Drive Getting Help Context-Sensitive Help Readme FileProduct Demonstrations Page Managing Partitions Integrity Checks Browsing Partitions Resizing and Moving Partitions Click Partition BrowseClick Partition Resize/Move Resize/Move Partition dialog appears To do this Do this Move Resize Managing Partitions Scenario Resizing a Logical Partition Larger Creating Partitions Click Partition Create Create Partition dialog appears Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, and Linux Swap are used by Linux Managing Drive Letter Changes Creating Bootable Partitions Installing a New Operating System Scenario 1 Creating a Primary Partition for Windows NT Size Type Create a logical FAT partition on Disk Create As Choose Logical Scenario 3 Creating Linux Logical Partitions Deleting Partitions Partition Type Select Linux Swap Undeleting Partitions Click Partition DeleteClick Delete or Delete and Secure Erase Click Partition Undelete Restrictions on Undeleting Partitions Changing Partition Labels Click Partition Label Formatting Partitions Copying PartitionsClick Partition Format Click Partition Copy Checking Partitions for Errors Severity Description Merging Partitions Click Partition Merge Merge Adjacent Partitions dialog appears Splitting Partitions Click Partition Split Norton PartitionMagic Getting Information About Partitions Click Partition Properties Partition Properties dialog appears UsageCluster Waste Scanning a Disk for Errors Current Cluster Size in bytes or kilobytesPartition Info File System-Specific Info Pages Click Start Defragmenting Drives Completing Advanced Disk Operations Retesting Bad Sectors Changing a Drive Letter Hiding and Unhiding Partitions Click Partition Advanced Bad Sector RetestClick Partition Advanced Hide Partition or Unhide Partition Resizing the Root Directory Click Partition Advanced Resize Root Setting an Active Partition Resizing Clusters Click Partition Advanced Set Active on the context menuSet Active Partition dialog appears Click Partition Advanced Resize Clusters Norton PartitionMagic Default Cluster Sizes Converting Partitions Procedure for Converting Partitions Click Partition Convert Converting FAT Partitions to FAT32 Converting FAT Partitions to Ntfs Converting FAT32 Partitions to FAT Converting FAT32 Partitions to Ntfs Converting FAT/FAT32 Partitions to 4K Aligned Converting Ntfs Partitions to FAT or FAT32 Restrictions on Converting Ntfs Partitions to FAT or FAT32 Ntfs Information Lost When Converting to FAT or FAT32 Error Converting Partitions to Logical or Primary On the toolbar Partition Convert Norton PartitionMagic Page Using Wizards Overview Running WizardsCreate New Partition Wizard Applying Changes Create Backup Partition Wizard Install Another Operating System WizardResize a Partition Wizard Redistribute Free Space Wizard Merge Partitions WizardCopy Partition Wizard Using PartitionMagic Utilities Changing Drive Letter References with DriveMapper Switching between Bootable Partitions with PQBoot Using DriveMapper With Multiple Operating SystemsChanging Drive Letters in the Correct Order PQBoot for Windows PQBoot for DOS PQBOOTX.EXE Running PQBoot for DOS with Command Line Switches BootMagic BootMagic System Requirements Getting Started Installing BootMagic Supported Operating Systems Installing BootMagic on an Ntfs System Creating a BootMagic Rescue Disk Click General Apply Changes Configuring BootMagic Getting Help Configuring BootMagic to Work on an Ntfs System Click Properties Click the Visible Partitions tab Setting BootMagic Passwords Adding an Operating System to the BootMagic MenuClick Save Exit Removing an Item from the BootMagic Menu BootMagic Menu Item Properties dialog appears Setting a Default Operating System Booting from a Second Hard DiskClick Set as Default Modifying a Menu Item’s Properties Setting the Startup Delay Disabling BootMagic Using the BootMagic Menu Using BootMagic to Install Operating SystemsTroubleshooting Ntfs System on Page Using PartitionMagic With Other Programs This appendix includes the following information Norton Utilities Norton Disk DoctorClick Restart Your Computer Disk Compression Utilities Norton AntiVirusNorton SystemWorks DriveSpace and DriveSpace Operating System Boot Utilities Virus Protection Software Drive Overlay Programs SoundBlasterGoBack Defragmenting Software Troubleshooting General Troubleshooting Freeing Memory to Run PartitionMagic under DOS On the toolbar, click Start Settings Control Panel Assigning a CD-ROM Drive LetterClick the Device Manager tab Using PartitionMagic With a Scsi Hard Disk Select File Exit Resolving Check Errors PqRP PartitionsMerging Partitions with Different Ntfs Version Numbers Resolving Partition Table Errors Partition Tables and Viruses Generating Diagnostic Reports with PartitionInfo Partition Will Not Boot After Resizing To do this Do this Error Messages and Solutions Generating Diagnostic Reports with PARTINFO.EXEMiscellaneous Errors Disk Access Errors #45 CRC error in data Partition Table Errors #98 Hibernate Windows 2000/XP #99 Hibernate Windows Me See error #105 See error #111 #117 Partition’s drive letter cannot be identified Check Errors Batch Errors User Interaction Errors #963 Selected operation is currently invalid #974 Root size specified was not in the valid range Ntfs Check Errors #1513 Bad attribute position in file record An external file record has an external attribute list #1604 File’s parent does not contain the file 133 Now enter the following command FAT Check Errors Run ScanDisk or Chkdsk to fix this error BootMagic Errors Operating System Errors over 10,000Exit Code 137 Page Service and Support Solutions Customer service Technical support Subscription policySupport for old and dis versions Worldwide service and support Service and support offices North AmericaAustralia and New Zealand Europe, Middle East, and Africa Appendix C Service and Support Solutions Index Numerics Index 145 Ntfs 147 System supports FAT32 22 SystemWorks 149