Partition Problem - 1 partition seems bad

[Howard222]

Problems on a 500GB laptop hard drive with 3 partitions and remainder unused.
-occasional halt on start up of Windows XPpro SP3; 1 or 2 restarts usually works.
-Chkdsk reports 80GB on C:; Partition program 155GB; Disk Defragmenter reports 15% free; D: and E: appear OK

Support Analysis Logfile shows 80GB and other numbers that do not see right. 
Attached: DP.LOG; SartoriNB_C Photo DiskPatch Full Scan

I am having trouble marking files to include in writing the partition. 
I have an Acronis Backup should I make a clone 1st?
I'm having trouble getting this repair started in the proper way.
Kind Regards /Howard

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[Joep]

I don't understand the problem. Can you access your data or not? if all your partitions are there, recovering them (again) has no use at all. Windows starting one time and not another does not indicate any kind of problem with the partition tables etc.

-Chkdsk reports 80GB on C:; Partition program 155GB; Disk Defragmenter reports 15% free; D: and E: appear OK

Again: Can you access the data or not (on the c: drive)?

Attached file only shows a Diskpatch screenshot which doesn't help a lot to explain the problem. We need log files and a thorough description of the actual problem.

[Howard222]

Joep,
Thanks.  All of the logs are attached.
The basic problem that I want to solve is increase the free space of C: Sever of my programs say it is only 15%.   I tried to increase it with several partition managers, but they fail. (I used Acronis Disk Director partition manager, mostly.)  Beside that, the PC has periods when the WinXPpro bar at start up freezes and I have to cold boot the PC.  I though that DiskPatch could indicate the health of the hard drive. 

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[Howard222]

->Here's the S.M.A.R.T. log. this one provides a full report taken from a Desktop PC with a full BIOS and the notebook hard drive the only drive plugged in.  Sorry I forget to send it earlier.  Thanks. /Howard

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[Joep]

Hello,

I don't see anything weird in the SMART Data.

One odd thing: The number of sectors value in the BPB (the boot sector) of the C: drive appears to be wrong, or better said it does not correspond with LBA sectors in the partition table: In general the value is equal to the LBA sector number - 1. You could edit this value with the disk editor.

In the disk editor goto sector 63, view the sector as NTFS boot sector and then change total sector from 167782792 to 325267991 (also see: http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/dp_manual/guide_diskeditor.htm#ex3).

[Howard222]

Joep,
Thanks.  This helped me learn how to do this.
Your fix repair Drive C:  But D: and E: are gone.  So I did a undo.
Thanks. /Howard

[Joep]

Hello,

I don't understand. Pitty you don't post a new log from after the repair, I see no reason why the other drives should be gone.

[Howard222]

Sorry, I apparently I was still asleep!  Here the two logs from early this morning.
Is there a way to log the full scan?
 Thanks! /Howard

[Joep]

There is nothing attached to your message.

[Howard222]

Here is the attachment, again. 

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[Tom]

These logs don't show any of the fixes that were suggested, there's only a partition table repair (which we didn't suggest and which you shouldn't have run and which is probably the reason for the disappearing of drives earlier).
Did you do this:
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/forum/index.php/topic,1193.msg4633.html#msg4633
or not. If not, try it. And stop running chkdsk, it's not good.
Also, as we asked before, can you access your data? If so, then the only problem is the fact that you can't resize a volume? That problem might (should) go away if you do the suggested fix.

[Joep]

Yes, this:

In the disk editor goto sector 63, view the sector as NTFS boot sector and then change total sector from 167782792 to 325267991 (also see: http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/dp_manual/guide_diskeditor.htm#ex3).

is all I asked you to do. It's not recorded in any logfile we have now. The boot sector still shows the old capacity. Editing the boot sector will probably fix the reported free/used space problems but I can't tell for sure since you have been trying to use partition resizers. Maybe the LBA sector value and total sector value are off because of a partition resizer messing this up.