I can not partition my Sotec 820P Notebook with OS Win XP Home. No matter what I try I get the message (Error 1513 while executing Batch). I have installed all patches and tried everything I can think of to get program to work...:confused:
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I can not partition my Sotec 820P Notebook with OS Win XP Home. No matter what I try I get the message (Error 1513 while executing Batch). I have installed all patches and tried everything I can think of to get program to work...:confused:
Looks like there's a patch for that error:
http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id4525.cfm
I tried the up-date before I posted and it didn't help. Can you believe that PM charges $30.00 to call for Tec help, I sure wasn't going to pay that...besides I have had allot of success with my post here :)Quote:
Originally posted by DVOM
Looks like there's a patch for that error:
http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id4525.cfm
After rereading the info in that link I provided, and since the patch didn't work for you, I'd try a different tool.
I'd download Ranish and try it. If that didn't work, I'd image the partition and wipe it. Then see if PM or Ranish will work.
This is all new to me. Could you please explain steps in more detail...Quote:
Originally posted by DVOM
After rereading the info in that link I provided, and since the patch didn't work for you, I'd try a different tool.
I'd download Ranish and try it. If that didn't work, I'd image the partition and wipe it. Then see if PM or Ranish will work.
bojovan, first I'd download >Ranish Partition Manager< to see if you can adjust your partitions with it.
If that doesn't work, you could image the partition with Norton Ghost or >Acronis True Image<. With the partition imaged to another partition or drive or CD's, you'd be free to format the drive. That would remove the file/attribute that's preventing Partition Magic from working.
After you finally get the partitions where you want them, you would then restore the image to the partition.
Have you tried running PM from the floppies? You can create a bootable 2-disk set that runs PM outside the system's OS. I find this often avoids conflicts, and works just as well as the GUI version.
I would but my notebook does not have a floppy drive. It looks like I'm out of luck on this project....Quote:
Originally posted by dougj
Have you tried running PM from the floppies? You can create a bootable 2-disk set that runs PM outside the system's OS. I find this often avoids conflicts, and works just as well as the GUI version.
Get the 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 adapter, then jumper into a Tower and go to work. What I did and works a dream to.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Could you explain in more detail:confused:Quote:
Originally posted by Train
Get the 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 adapter, then jumper into a Tower and go to work. What I did and works a dream to.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
That adapter plugs into the laptop hdd. Then you can plug the 40 pin ribbon used in the desktop into the other side of the adapter.
Also need to plug in the power also.
Boot to the PM floppies and go to work.
Way I do it.
I have tried everything... Has anyone any last suggestions. I hate it when I can not resolve a problem with a program that should work without this much problem:mad:
I have found on XP the Partitionmagic gives more errors than it did in 2K or 98. Things I have noticed / do are :-
If you have more than one partition try a 'chkdsk /x <letter>:' on them. This will check them and more importantly unmount them so no files will be in use.
But that is not likeky to work on C: or the partition that PartitionMagic is installed on so the only thing I have noticed about running PM on this partition is when you click apply select the show details button and if there is NOT a mark beside the operation to modify c: meaning it has to boot into 'dos' then cancel the operation, and try again. Usually the second time it will get it right.
PM is sometimes to smart for it own good and will modify the boot.ini file to point to the 'new' partition which it thinks is now c: but if it crashes or you run it from floppy this can not always happen or it can go wrong. Also once in 2K it came up with a pop-up at the end of the operation to tell me to modify the boot.ini file myself, I ignored it thinking it was the 'now you need to reboot' message and I could not boot any more so from now on ...
I have a boot.ini file of (in XP, for 2K change all the WINDOWS for WINNT)
[boot loader]
timeout=9
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Partition 1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Partition 3"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Partition 4"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(5)\WINDOWS="Partition 5"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(6)\WINDOWS="Partition 6"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(7)\WINDOWS="Partition 7"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(8)\WINDOWS="Partition 8"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(9)\WINDOWS="Partition 9"
this way if it goes wrong I can boot ffrom any partition then when I am in change the default line to point to the new partition.
I don't have PM, but I do have Drive Image, another PowerQuest product and it seems the original CD for Drive Image is bootable. If you have a CDR or CDRW on the notebook, you could change the boot order in bios to boot from it first and boot using the PM CD. It is at least worth a try.
If the CD is not bootable, but you can boot from CD on the notebook, you could also create a bootable CD with Partition Magic on the CD. I have done this with Drive Image so I don't have to deal with those pesky floppy disks. Go to the following site, scroll down to the section on bootable CD's and click the links.
Bootable CD
I used PartitionMagic disks to see if they would partition my desktop HD and they wouldn't partiton it either. I have xp pro on my desktop and xp home on my notebook. It seems that it is a xp issue:confused: