Hard Disk Partition problems

[zillah]

I have got problem with the my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) HD's partition (I am not sure if it is with partition, but I guess), I have experienced similar(not same)problem long time ago for more that one time with my desktop PC(not the laptop), especially when I installed more than one operating system on the same HD, but I had no clue what was going on, I used to re-partition or format the HD.

For instance the problem that I had experienced before, when I was trying to use Partition Magic (V8) to verify the there was no error on a specific partition, it was always telling me that there was error (As far as I remember it was error #119 but not sure, because I have not recorded it at that time). I have been told that there was bug in PM, do not rely on it

Today when I tried to defragment volume C (windows partition NTFS ) for my laptop(which has 3 OS on it Windows 2000 server , Linux, Solaris V10), I faced this error message:

"The volume WIN2000(C : ) has 16 KB per cluster. Disk Defragmenter cannot defragment NTFS drives with more than 4 KB per cluster".

1- Are these type of errors because I have more than one OSs on the same HD ?

2- Can I repair my current error ? How ?

3- What should I use to verify that there is no error on the all partitions on the HD ?

[snowmonkey]

1- Are these type of errors because I have more than one OS's on the same HD ?
A1. I don't think so, I have many client system with more then one OS (I use myself as example, if that is accepted reference)


2- Can I repair my current error ? How ?
Q2. this is more of a question then answer, Do you have NTFS partition ? if not, try to convert the partition to NTFS and try it again ?

3- What should I use to verify that there is no error on the all partitions on the HD ?

???3, have you considered that there may a problem with your hard drive, something like bad sector ? there aren't any software out there that can FIX the bad sector.


Cheers

[zillah]

Thanks very much

I use myself as example, if that is accepted reference

For me yes, it is acceptable.

Do you have NTFS partition

My answer would be :

Today when I tried to defragment volume C (windows partition NTFS ------

a problem with your hard drive, something like bad sector

I have already scanned (full scanned) the laptop's HD,which is segate with utility from segate website. There was no error

[TopFarmer]

defrag error see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;837336
no good work around, it would seem you did not use win2000 to partition and format the drive.