I'm using Partition Magic 7.0 to increase the size of my HD's primary partition (C) from 8 Gb to 15 Gb--but PM 7 refuses to do it... (I'm running under W2K).

PM gave me a warning about increasing the size bigger than 8 Gb (or 1000 cylinders).

There's a second partition on this drive, with 6 more volumes (D-I) allocated within it. I had to move those first. Now there's free space at the end of the primary partition, but it still won't make the primary partition any bigger...

I got a couple of PM error codes (1073731435 & 322123851),
but I can't decipher them, even from the Symantec PM error-code web site.

Perhaps this profile of my 80-Gig HD will be of help:

Drive C: 7.86 Gig
[7 Gig unallocated here]
Drive D: 19.5 Gig
Drive E: 509 Mgb
Drive F: 1.16 Gig
Drive G: 1.16 Gig
Drive H: .99 Gig
Drive I: .99 Gig
[37 Gig unallocated here]

Thanks for any good feedback concerning this problem.

Hello and welcome to PC Help Forum.

Firstly why did you create ALL them partitions on one 80 gig HDD?

Here is another question why do you need all those partitions on an 80 gig HDD?


Firstly you need to either delete partitions or reduce there size as well as there volumes to make main C:/ BIGGER.