Partition Magic 8.0 Problem

[Divergent Species]

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.

[104456]

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.

http://www.shop-fast-easy-electronic...locale-uk.html

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.

[best55]

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

[LindaHewitt]

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

[best55]

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

[Train]

Don't need to switch, the cdrom is now drive A:\ .

[bojovan]

If I back up my current files, NTFS, will they image back to a new FAT32 partition without any problem...

[Train]

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.

[Train]

PowerQuest has PowerQuest Instructional Videos here just select your product.

[best55]

Hello,

Train: Don't need to switch, the cdrom is now drive A:\ .

It's like you say, only if you can put onto a boot floppy disk also
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

[Divergent Species]

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

[bojovan]

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?

[gopen]

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.

[SpywareDr]

Welcome to VirtualDr

I'd try deleting the partitions and starting over.