Solve : Hard drive partition error - EaseUS - Win 7?

1.	Solve : Hard drive partition error - EaseUS - Win 7?
Answer» hi, thanks for your help in advance. here's what's happening: i have a 1.5 TB external hard drive that i partitioned 250 GB worth of space from, giving me I:> and G:>, the G drive was the smaller 250 gig one, which i formatted from ntfs to wbfs, so i could back up my wii games. well, i've decided not to bother with it and i want to change it back. so first i thought i'd format the drive back to ntfs, then merge the two together. that process began, ran for a while and gave me an error. then i thought i'd delete the small partition and extend the large one by 250 GB. that process returned an error. before i go too far, i thought i'd post and see what someone else thought. i have DATA on the large partition that i don't want to lose, and too much of it to back up on something else, seeing as it IS my backup hard drive. thanksIt would be best to get another drive to make an exact copy of your data before messing around with making these kinds of changes. Resizing, creating and deleting partitions on a drive with MULTIPLE partitions is best performed when you have a safe backup of your data. Otherwise without a safe backup, you take the risk of losing data. Quote i have data on the large partition that i don't want to lose, and too much of it to back up on something else, There is no work around for a good safe data backup plan! This type of backup you have is a single point of failure. It reminds me of people back in the day who use to backup there data to a single floppy disk at the risk that something could either go wrong during the process by which the backup is writing to disk or the disk can just one day wear out and cause problems. This is why the best backups are redundant ( more than 1 copy of data ), and there are many methods of data redundancy with different levels of safety as well as being able to restore data from a earlier point in time when the current file overwrites an old file and then now you need that old file before the edit or corruption and no longer have a copy etc or you had multiple media with the file backed up and can pick from a daily backup and go back in time up to as many days as you are backing up which in most businesses are 5 to 7 days in which the following monday overwrites last mondays data etc. One free data backup solution if you have dsl or cable broadband and an amazon acct is to use the free 5GB cloud space you are allocated, to store the most critical of data that you absolutely can not lose, but 5GB is most LIKELY not even worth bothering with since you have far more data than 5GB that is likely data you cant chance losing. External Hard Drives are cheap these days, especially the 500GB and smaller ones that are frequently on bargain sales to move them off the dusty shelves for room for the newer larger drives that sell more often. I picked up a brand new 320GB iomega external for $35 the one day on newegg and seen the 500GB drives sell for around $60 on closeout prices. Unfortunately the safest method before making any further changes is to back up all data to another drive!There's an old saying once you change you can't go back... See Here...thank you both for your replies. that link pretty much says it all. "One of the problems of WBFS that persists is its lack of proper filesystem utilities. If you still have a legacy WBFS drive it is hard to convert to something else and can't be grown or shrunk in size." i even understand why. what i don't understand, is if that's true, how come i can change the wbfs drive to ntfs? it can be done. i did it. it just seems like i can't merge it with the larger partition. that's where the error happens. i'm wondering if there's residual data on the partition in the wbfs format causing the error even though it's been formatted and wiped in the ntfs file system. like the other old saying goes, nothing's really ever deleted. so if i have a ghost of all my wii games on the hard drive, maybe the merge goes belly up when it comes across that data. is that even logical? i wiped the whole drive only once, and to be fair i haven't even tried to copy normal ntfs data to it yet. but even if i could, it doesn't fix my initial problem, merging the smaller partition with the larger one so i can have one drive for everything, like it was before i messed with it. i guess i need to know why. why can i create and delete partitions in ntfs and fat32, change their size, merge them, etc, while it cannot be done if you're dealing with wbfs? i don't understand why it can't be undone. to me that sounds like physical damage. did partitioning my drive in a wbfs format damage part of my drive?After conversion you can try deleting it...then re-creating it again...THATS all i got.i fixed the problem. i feel like a dope. all i had to do was go into WINDOWS' disk management tool, delete the partition, extend the primary one. i tried it a million times in EaseUS Partition Manager. once in windows. all data still intact. there. it's never impossible.Good to hear you are fixed up...

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hi, thanks for your help in advance. here's what's happening: i have a 1.5 TB external hard drive that i partitioned 250 GB worth of space from, giving me I:> and G:>, the G drive was the smaller 250 gig one, which i formatted from ntfs to wbfs, so i could back up my wii games. well, i've decided not to bother with it and i want to change it back.

so first i thought i'd format the drive back to ntfs, then merge the two together. that process began, ran for a while and gave me an error.

then i thought i'd delete the small partition and extend the large one by 250 GB. that process returned an error.

before i go too far, i thought i'd post and see what someone else thought. i have DATA on the large partition that i don't want to lose, and too much of it to back up on something else, seeing as it IS my backup hard drive.

thanksIt would be best to get another drive to make an exact copy of your data before messing around with making these kinds of changes. Resizing, creating and deleting partitions on a drive with MULTIPLE partitions is best performed when you have a safe backup of your data. Otherwise without a safe backup, you take the risk of losing data.

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i have data on the large partition that i don't want to lose, and too much of it to back up on something else,

There is no work around for a good safe data backup plan! This type of backup you have is a single point of failure. It reminds me of people back in the day who use to backup there data to a single floppy disk at the risk that something could either go wrong during the process by which the backup is writing to disk or the disk can just one day wear out and cause problems. This is why the best backups are redundant ( more than 1 copy of data ), and there are many methods of data redundancy with different levels of safety as well as being able to restore data from a earlier point in time when the current file overwrites an old file and then now you need that old file before the edit or corruption and no longer have a copy etc or you had multiple media with the file backed up and can pick from a daily backup and go back in time up to as many days as you are backing up which in most businesses are 5 to 7 days in which the following monday overwrites last mondays data etc.

One free data backup solution if you have dsl or cable broadband and an amazon acct is to use the free 5GB cloud space you are allocated, to store the most critical of data that you absolutely can not lose, but 5GB is most LIKELY not even worth bothering with since you have far more data than 5GB that is likely data you cant chance losing.

External Hard Drives are cheap these days, especially the 500GB and smaller ones that are frequently on bargain sales to move them off the dusty shelves for room for the newer larger drives that sell more often. I picked up a brand new 320GB iomega external for $35 the one day on newegg and seen the 500GB drives sell for around $60 on closeout prices.

Unfortunately the safest method before making any further changes is to back up all data to another drive!There's an old saying once you change you can't go back...

See Here...thank you both for your replies.

that link pretty much says it all.

"One of the problems of WBFS that persists is its lack of proper filesystem utilities.
If you still have a legacy WBFS drive it is hard to convert to something else and can't be grown or shrunk in size."

i even understand why. what i don't understand, is if that's true, how come i can change the wbfs drive to ntfs? it can be done. i did it. it just seems like i can't merge it with the larger partition. that's where the error happens. i'm wondering if there's residual data on the partition in the wbfs format causing the error even though it's been formatted and wiped in the ntfs file system. like the other old saying goes, nothing's really ever deleted. so if i have a ghost of all my wii games on the hard drive, maybe the merge goes belly up when it comes across that data. is that even logical? i wiped the whole drive only once, and to be fair i haven't even tried to copy normal ntfs data to it yet. but even if i could, it doesn't fix my initial problem, merging the smaller partition with the larger one so i can have one drive for everything, like it was before i messed with it.

i guess i need to know why. why can i create and delete partitions in ntfs and fat32, change their size, merge them, etc, while it cannot be done if you're dealing with wbfs? i don't understand why it can't be undone. to me that sounds like physical damage. did partitioning my drive in a wbfs format damage part of my drive?After conversion you can try deleting it...then re-creating it again...THATS all i got.i fixed the problem. i feel like a dope.

all i had to do was go into WINDOWS' disk management tool, delete the partition, extend the primary one.

i tried it a million times in EaseUS Partition Manager. once in windows. all data still intact.

there. it's never impossible.Good to hear you are fixed up...

Solve : Hard drive partition error - EaseUS - Win 7?

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