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OT - Partition Magic
Simple Simon wrote:
... to finish the job PartitionMagic comes on and does a few things then it starts giving error messages until it says too many errors - aborting partitioning. What error messages does it give? I've done a little reading on some of the tech groups and there's letters to the effect that HP does something to their disks when they are imaged that prevents partitioning. What a drag! I might just have save all my date, reformat, do an fdisk and set up the partitions that way if I can't find out why PM can't do the job. See if you can find out what HP do to their disks - if it's reversible, it'll save a lot of hassle. -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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OT - Partition Magic
Try it, you'll like it.
Cheers MC Donal wrote: "The_navigator©" wrote in message ... Don't use Lilo use grub. I don't know about grub. Lilo has worked flawlessly for the last 8 years. Regards Donal -- |
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OT - Partition Magic
Use Linux.
Cheers MC Simple Simon wrote: I'm certainly glad I didn't waste my money on a retail box of PartitionMagic. I downloaded it and BootMagic from the fosi site and it is the latest version (8) but it would not work. I've tried it three or four times and as far as I can tell I'm doing everything right but when I resize the existing partition and create another smaller FAT32 partition for Win98 and reboot to finish the job PartitionMagic comes on and does a few things then it starts giving error messages until it says too many errors - aborting partitioning. I've checked the hard drive. It's new and less than a month old and has no errors on it according to chkdsk.exe, it has no bad sectors or anything. It's good. I've done a little reading on some of the tech groups and there's letters to the effect that HP does something to their disks when they are imaged that prevents partitioning. What a drag! I might just have save all my date, reformat, do an fdisk and set up the partitions that way if I can't find out why PM can't do the job. S.Simon "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... Has anybody here used Partition Magic to set up partitions on an XP Home machine so Win 98 can be installed on a separate partition resulting in a dual boot or multi-boot system? Did the software work as advertised? I have this nice little scanner called a Travel Scan and the company that made it either went out of business or the product was bought out by another company. Unfortunately the software does not load or work with XP and there will be no new software produced for it. Rather than tossing the scanner I was thinking instead of installing Win98 on another partition on my hard drive and loading the scanner software there because it works just great on the Win98 OS. Also, I have some other legacy programs that aren't compatible with WinXP that I would still like to use and I could also load them on the Win98 partition. I found a site where I can download Partition Magic for 49.95. What do you think? Ganz, do you have any multi-boot computers? S.Simon |
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OT - Partition Magic
Simple Simon wrote:
I've done a little reading on some of the tech groups and there's letters to the effect that HP does something to their disks when they are imaged that prevents partitioning. What a drag! Might be something like... http://www.interex.org/hpworldnews/hpw203/06news.html ....which says... -------------------- HP still bundles recovery software, but instead of burning it on a CD-ROM, the company places the files on dedicated partitions of the computers' hard disks. The recovery software takes up seven CD-ROMs or nearly 4.5 gigabytes of space on Pavilion hard drives. The partition is hidden and write-protected so the consumer cannot accidentally erase it. -------------------- -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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OT - Partition Magic
I was suspecting something like that.... not really up on pavilion hds.
"Wally" wrote in message ... Simple Simon wrote: I've done a little reading on some of the tech groups and there's letters to the effect that HP does something to their disks when they are imaged that prevents partitioning. What a drag! Might be something like... http://www.interex.org/hpworldnews/hpw203/06news.html ...which says... -------------------- HP still bundles recovery software, but instead of burning it on a CD-ROM, the company places the files on dedicated partitions of the computers' hard disks. The recovery software takes up seven CD-ROMs or nearly 4.5 gigabytes of space on Pavilion hard drives. The partition is hidden and write-protected so the consumer cannot accidentally erase it. -------------------- -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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