mark schaller
Junior Member
Hello,
My father was partitioning a 40gb hard drive into two 20GB hard drives. The initial 1-2 GB of the disk was used with all of his files (financial information, his website, and his music). The hard drive is a FAT32 and the new partition (using the latter 20GB of the disk) was also set to be FAT32. He started the pending operations and it seemed to be going very slow, and I told him that it will be a while since the hard drive is so large...
He eventually cancels the partition because he said the progress bar hadn't moved for a very long time (there were three seperate progress bars, and neither of them moved).
Now the hard drive shows up as a drive letter in Windows Explorer, but when clicked on, it says the disk is unable to be read. I'm sure that because of the partition being canceled (and hence, being unfinished) that the drive was unable to be read.
Some people suggested to me that I should attempt to delete the partition, possibly both, if they show up, and make the partition use up the whole disk. This sounds logical, however, I want to be sure that this is something I can do without further compounding the problem -- if this will compound the problem, I will definitely not try it. If partitioning it won't hurt, then I will try it.
Also, is this something that a disk doctor or disk specialist can repair? Would he or she be able to recover the important data on the disk?
Thank you for your help.
Mark
My father was partitioning a 40gb hard drive into two 20GB hard drives. The initial 1-2 GB of the disk was used with all of his files (financial information, his website, and his music). The hard drive is a FAT32 and the new partition (using the latter 20GB of the disk) was also set to be FAT32. He started the pending operations and it seemed to be going very slow, and I told him that it will be a while since the hard drive is so large...
He eventually cancels the partition because he said the progress bar hadn't moved for a very long time (there were three seperate progress bars, and neither of them moved).
Now the hard drive shows up as a drive letter in Windows Explorer, but when clicked on, it says the disk is unable to be read. I'm sure that because of the partition being canceled (and hence, being unfinished) that the drive was unable to be read.
Some people suggested to me that I should attempt to delete the partition, possibly both, if they show up, and make the partition use up the whole disk. This sounds logical, however, I want to be sure that this is something I can do without further compounding the problem -- if this will compound the problem, I will definitely not try it. If partitioning it won't hurt, then I will try it.
Also, is this something that a disk doctor or disk specialist can repair? Would he or she be able to recover the important data on the disk?
Thank you for your help.
Mark
