It seems rather obvious now, but since I learned the hard way, I figured that I'd save the rest of you from a painful experience. I have one HD of 1.2gb. I created a 50mb partition at the end of the drive using PM and encrypted it with SD14b. I ran out of room on the secured partition and wanted to enlarge it. I used PM to shrink the primary partition a little, and to enlarge the secured partition. When I shrank the primary, the free space on the drive appeared between the two partitions. To enlarge the secondary, I moved it to the free space, then enlarged it on the right. This was BAD! PM did its thing, but no matter what I did after that, I couldn't get the secured partition to a usable state. I ended up formatting the secured partition to recover. After some playing, it seems that PM tries to "re-align" the data on the 2nd partition when you move left. That's where things get screwed up. I tested a few combinations, and found that everything works fine if you decrypt the partition before moving/resizing, then re-encrypt after. Just some friendly info. G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | Great people talk about ideas. | | Oyster Bay, New York | Average people talk about things. | | gcg@pb.net | Small people talk about people. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP 2.6.2 public key available at http://www.pb.net/~wizard | | and on a plethora of key servers around the world. | | Fingerprint = A6 7B 67 D7 E9 96 37 7D E7 16 BD 5E F4 5A B2 E4 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | That which does not kill us, makes us stranger. - Trevor Goodchild | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~