Partition Wizard Anomaly

[SIW2]

PW52 disagrees with all the other apps. about the status of this drive.

It shows a large part of the drive as unallocated:



Windows Disk Management :










Even PW42 shows the volumes correctly:

 

[gregrocker]

Concerning. Is this the boot CD or home version?

The only change I've noticed is the new version will allow Resizing without regard to whether it is into Logical Free Space or Primary Unallocated Space, whereas you had to force convert it before if it was not the same format as resized partition.

 

[SIW2]

That is the installed Home version of PW52.

However, I have it on winpe media as well.

Booting that up gave the same strange result.

There may be a bug in it somewhere.

 

[mjf]

I often use PW 5.2 so this error was of concern
I couldn't duplicate the error.
Used PW bootable to create extended partition & PW home for display only.

 

[SIW2]

It's very rare - and hard to pin down the cause.

There is a bug in this version 5.2 - not seen in earlier versions.

 

[gregrocker]

Have you communicated with them?

If they know by now that their tool is a workhorse used here in the busiest Win7 forum, maybe they are monitoring what goes on here.

Is it made by Symantec?

 

[SIW2]

Checking to see if anyone else had similar before reporting it to MT.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I've had another issue with PW but it's nothing similar to this one, it has to do with resizing.

 

[gregrocker]

I just noticed I have 7 mb unallocated at end of HD which in v. 5.2 won't Resize into Win7 partition, but v. 4.2 will do it

In new version if I try to Resize it into 7 it jumps to the front of drive, and vice versa, and won't apply Resize either way.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

We were helping this guy the other day and the unallocated space 'moved' from here to here at the time I didn't know if it was something he'd done or a PW issue.

 

[mjf]

For others reading this thread.
I find the mini/home installed PW5.2 unreliable for any significant partition adjustment. The application will often crash when doing this work even on separate, non OS disk. Apart from observation and things like
1) partition type changes; 2) file system check 3) dynamic/basic conversion v4.2

I apply changes when using the bootable version one by one.

 

[SIW2]

Can you describe the issue, BFK?

I've had another issue with PW but it's nothing similar to this one, it has to do with resizing.

Greg, I don't think it's made by symantec - that is an acknowledgement since they mention the old partition magic in their blurb.

If you look at the bottom of this very page , it says

"Windows 7" and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Can you describe the issue, BFK?

I've had another issue with PW but it's nothing similar to this one, it has to do with resizing.

At the time I was using the resize function a lot, it seemed as though it was an issue with the partitions being too close together to be resized successfully.

I was creating partitions using diskpart and installing Windows to be resized to create the SysResv partition and sometime I would get an error that the resize could not be completed and PW would close.

I worked out that if I left 1MB between the partitions when created using diskpart that I would not get that error when trying to resize with PW.

Sorry it's been a while.

I thought I had saved a snip of the error dialog box but I can't find it now.

 

[SIW2]

Message to me from MT:

Thank you for the feedback.
Your information is very valuable for us to identify this problem.Our developer is working on this and hope we can fix it in the next release.

 

[gregrocker]

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