[dieKatze88]

Originally Posted by TakuyaMAXX

The problem in detail is this:
I have a 160 GB HDD splited into 2 partitions: the first 40 GB and the second 120 GB.
I really want to have only one full disk partition... so:
1.- I deleted the first (40 GB).
2.- I rezised the second to the max possible, but there's 8 MB left to complete the full disk... so I create a new partition (8 MB) and force the merging to fill the entire disk.
3.- When all the process ends, it shows an error and no backup optons were displayed this time.

Then I could never ever start the program again, because it was shutdown every time because of the disk fail. The partition table was replaced and only a 8 MB disk was recognized.

Then I create a new partition on the available 150 GB. The partition was formatted using the fast option, to avoid deleting the data in the process.

And now PC Inspector only recovers cluster named files that obviously doesn't work for my purposes.... I'll try this now using Windows Vista (all the previous was using Windows XP).

You should never force those last 8mb. they are kept as spare sectors so if parts of your drive silently fail the drive can simply remap.