creating a partition with acronis

[biddy79uk]

evrytime i try and create a partition with Acronis i get this message

operation error,unable to resize partition with bad blocks....

why is this?

[DwnNdrty]

Run chkdsk /r on your hard drive. The system may have to reboot before the chkdsk operation can be carried out, but it will tell you so.

[biddy79uk]

i must state:
this is a new HDD taken out of my e machines computer if that matters
i have sucseeded in installing windows and evrything else.......
the only thing is my floppy drive dont show up in "my computer"

back to subject.......

it did pop up with "acronis needs to reboot to start operation"

but then after reboot i keep getting this message......

operation error,
unable to resize partition with bad blocks

[biddy79uk]

C'MON PEEPS ANY IDEAS I'ME PULLING MY HAIR OUT HERE:

[flinchlock]

Originally Posted by biddy79uk

...this is a new HDD taken out of my e machines computer if that matters...

Hmm... I wonder if that harddisk has HPA or DCO?

Per http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/HDDEraseReadMe.txt...

Q: What are HPA and DCO areas?

A: HPA is an acronym for Host Protected Area. A HPA is a portion of sectors at the end of the hard drive that can not be addressed by the user. Normally this area is used to store hard drive diagnostic or recovery type software, but any type of data may reside in this area. DCO is an acronym for Device Configuration Overlay. Similar to a HPA, a DCO represents a portion at the end of the hard drive that is not user addressable. Both these areas are NOT overwritten when a windows format, secure/enhanced erase, or any other overwrite method is performed. In order for these areas to be erased they have to be first removed, and only then can the entire drive be erased.

Mike

[Acronis Support]

Hello biddy79uk,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

Please notice that such message most likely means the drive has bad sectors. They may not yet affect functionality, but due to their nature may make the drive unusable in case of sector-level operations. Please do as DwnNdrty suggests and run "chkdsk X: /r" command on every partition of the hard drive in question (replacing X with assigned partition letter).

If checkdisk reports no errors, please clarify, what Acronis Product and what build of it are you using? You can find the full version name and build number by going to Help -> About... menu in the main program window.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov