![]() I'm so stressed out at the moment due to non-related factors, that I think I let my guard down. I'm still kicking myself for this-I have no idea how I let myself get into this-I knew better. So how easy is data to recover in this situation? And if there is no HDD activity, is it best to cancel it sooner than later? You never figure you'll have this problem with a drive that isn't powered 24/7. Important enough that I don't want to lose it, but unfortunately I never purchased a second 1.5 TB drive to back it up due to it's temporary nature. It doesn't have critical data, but the data is still pretty important. This 1.5 TB drive is overflow because the 1 TB array is usually full. ![]() My primary storage is a 1 TB RAID 1 array that gets backed up on a third 1 TB drive which is kept in storage. No, there is no backup copy of this data. And I remembered them soon after I started the operation, which was slightly after I regretted doing it. It's so stupid, because I forgot I had two unused 15K SAS drives in my desk drawer that I could have used instead. Hence, installing a temp OS on a different drive to help diagnose. Of course I had a back up of this (ATI), but I haven't been able to get any backups to restore properly. I think this is the last time I use a SECC case instead of aluminum. It is disconnected, because it used to be connected to my LSI RAID card, but my system took some kind of static shock anomaly a month ago that apparently went through the case to a hard drive, which knocked out my LSI card and wiped out my OS drive (raid 0). 3 hours later when I was at the bar, I somehow made a duplicate reply.Īs far as the drive activity goes, the HDD LED isn't connect at the moment, but I'm sure if I connected it in the morning, it should function properly. (Unfortunately I can't run the software at the moment, because of the initial problem that got me into this mess) What's your take if in the morning there still is no progress shown? This is a pretty powerful machine and I need it to work on some complex solid models that I'm getting behind on, which my other machine can't handle-even if it told me I had 50 hours left to go, that would be fine, as long as I have a number. I would be more assured if there was even a sliver of progress shown. How great is the risk by merely hitting the cancel button? (as long as I let it run it's course if nothing happens when I click it) Theoretically, if I did try to cancel and data loss did result, how easy is it to recover? Is there any software that has good success rates with recovering data lost from this situation? It still shows no bars on either progress meter. That's kind of what I expected, but I also expected it to show some kind of progress by now, or would have calculated an estimated time. I have been in a similar situation before, and remember that when I tried to cancel, nothing happened and it just kept on working on the resize. So my my question is: can I *safely* cancel this operation while it is trying (apparently) to perform it? What I mean by safely, if it isn't obvious, is that I have about 1.2 TB of important data on this hard drive, not backed up, and don't want to lose it. But now, about 60 minutes later, the status bar STILL shows no progress for operation progress and total progress, and still shows no time left. As soon as I released the mouse click on commit, I realize this is going to take a long time, and started to wish I hadn't done it. ![]() While doing this I thought to myself that this is dangerous and stupid, but I did it anyway because I really need to get something else fixed. I resized the partition and made 40 GB of unallocated space before the existing partition. ![]() There is about 100 GB free space, out of the ~1.3 TB in total. So I was going to make a 40 GB partition on it. I was trying to make room on a 1.5 TB HD to load an OS on to, to diagnose some unrelated problems. Hi, Just like the title says can I *safely* cancel a partition resize operation while it is in progress? Here is what happened.
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