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:
Since you can't seem to get PM to work, I would go back to an earlier suggestion and download Ranish Partition Manager. I have not used it, but I have heard only good things about it. Note, it is not quite as user friendly as PM, but you can't complain as it works and it is free.
http://www.shop-fast-easy-electronic...locale-uk.htmlQuote:
Rating: [2 out of 5 stars] - Potentially the best - but with WinXP it can be a lottery
This program is probably the best of its kind - which unfortunately isn't saying much, as partitioning programs are a dodgy lot. Partition Magic 8.0 is a very well-presented program and straightforward to use, and potentially very powerful. Most systems will be OK with it. But partitioning is a tricky business, and as with other similar programs, the NTFS filesystem used by XP and NT can cause hiccups in the form of frequent stoppages and error messages. Plus, it has one serious glitch: with some, not all, XP set-ups, it throws out Error 1513 (relating to file recognition) and refuses to partition.
PowerQuest's technicians are polite and responsive but don't actually have a solution to this. Their only patch is from version 8.0 to 8.01 - which most buyers, me included, will already have. Running ckdsk /f as recommended by the technicians also doesn't work - and most people would have done this before attempting any partitioning work in any case.
The fact is, for some of you out there, Parition Magic won't work. This is poor from a well-known company who shouldn't make claims about XP compatibility that they can't uphold. After extensive web searches (e.g. check out the reviews on Amazon.com, rather than .co.uk - they seem to give a good overall picture) I have discovered that I am not alone. This saga seems to have happened to many people trying to use PM8 with XP.
No partitioning program is perfect, and some are frankly lethal, so I will hang onto this one in the hope that PowerQuest come up with a suitable patch. I would advise potential buyers who have recent Win XP systems to wait for the next version and/or keep a sharp eye on web reviews rather than risk splashing out on something that might be useless to them.
So it looks like it a coding problem which they know about but have no solution for as yet.
You could make a bootable CDR with the floppy PQMagic files on then run it.
Hello,
PMagic is an wonderful program, but it's basically a DOS program.
I work with PM since PM4 was on the market and can say that the
sure way to use it it's only in DOS, using the rescue diskettes you've made while installing PMagic. In fact, after making those
diskettes, you can uninstall PM which takes a lot of HDD space.
I love PMagic a lot, but I don't trust it to handle NTFS5.1 partitions
I assume your XP system takes the whole HDD space , so in my oppinion you suppose to:
- backup your personal data from the Sotec Notebook to a CD
- restart your Notebook and use PM8 rescue diskettes to format your HDD as FAT32 .
-now you can partitionate your HDD as you wish (anyway a 6GB
will be enough for XP)
-finally, reinstall XP Home on your Notebook
Here I put a few considerations on this issue.
good luck
Stefan
PowerQuest's email technical support is free and it is excellent.
Here is the link
http://www.powerquest.com/support/emsupport.cfm
where you can post a description of your problem. Be sure that you include the partinfo file with your email.
If you are not familiar with partinfo, there is a link on the link above, which explains what you need to do.
You should ave a response within a couple of business days.
Cheers,
Linda
:D
Hello again,
I forgot that your Notebook doesn't have a floppy
drive. Instead of boot diskette you can make a
Boot CD using your CD-RW. You need a boot
diskette anyway, because the burning software
asks for one. You can get a very good W98 Boot
Diskette here .
At this Boot CD you also need to copy the content
of PMagic8 Rescue - Disk2. When you start the
Notebook with the Boot CD inserted in CD-RW drive
you reach in a few moments the A:\> prompt.
Switch to your CD-RW drive and run PQMAGIC.EXE
all the best
Stefan
Don't need to switch, the cdrom is now drive A:\ .
If I back up my current files, NTFS, will they image back to a new FAT32 partition without any problem...
The image will wipe the fat32 out and install the image as it is.
BUT, then going back into PM you can convert the NTFS to Fat32. I have done that several times, but it took a while for that to be done. A long while if I remember right.
Also, I only had about 300MB open on the hdd so that may have added to the time factor.
Now from here which also have a video on how to do that
To convert a partition's file system:
1. In the partition list, select the partition you want to convert.
2. In the Partition Operations pane, click "Convert Partition."
3. Select the file system type you would like to convert the partition to.
4. Click "OK."
5. Read the message about languages and characters being changed, and then click "OK."
6. Since this operation can not be batched, click "Yes" to apply the changes at once.
PowerQuest has PowerQuest Instructional Videos here just select your product.
Hello,
It's like you say, only if you can put onto a boot floppy disk alsoQuote:
Train: Don't need to switch, the cdrom is now drive A:\ .
the files needed for PM8 to run. But they take about 0.9MB :-(
and the boot floppy is already full.
When creates a BootCD, the burning software (Nero, EasyCD etc)
needs a Boot Diskette to build up an image file which later will
be written on CD-R. When you start the PC, this image file will
make the CD-ROM/CD-RW to emulate the A floppy unit ; when
type the dir command at A:\> prompt you'll get the same
content as Boot Diskette used to create the image. Therefore you
need to switch to CD-ROM assigned letter.
bojovan, if you shall use this and if you add the bellow files to your Boot CD, you suppose to :
A:\>r:
R:\>pqmagic
This is a list for PM7Pro
PQMAGIC.OVL ------- 824,701
PQMAGIC.EXE ------- 38,450
PQPB.RTC ------------ 683
________________________
3 files ------------------ 863,834 bytes
all the best
Stefan
You can get an excellent procedure and associated files for creating a bootable CD that will immulate a 2.88MB floppy, which is big enough to hold the PM files on the bootable CD. Go here and select Barts Way under Bootable CD.
Bootable CD
I had no luck with PartionMagic no matter what I tried, so I decided to try PartitionExpert one more time and for some reason it worked great. I partitioned my hard drive and installed Win 2k on new partition and after working with Win 2k for awhile I decided to remove it and make the hard drive one single partition again. Now how do I get my boot manager to stop recognizing that I still have 2 partitions?
I have four volumes C,D,E,F. Suddenly power goes off during resizing partition of F giving released spaced to E. The problem is that Volume F is not visible. I have ASUS CB-5216A motherboard BIOS version 6.00 PG and Pentium D processor (3.06GHz speed) and 512MB RAM with Windows XP SP2 is installed.
Welcome to VirtualDr :)
I'd try deleting the partitions and starting over.