Can't use Partition Magic on a new computer.

[marcy]

When I select the C drive and click "Partition - Move/Resize",
The graph window opens and includes a line "this partition crosses the 1024
cylinder boundary and may not be bootable".

This is a new Dell computer. Is there any way around this problem (short
of reformatting and reinstalling)??

 

[John Weiss]

When I select the C drive and click "Partition - Move/Resize",
The graph window opens and includes a line "this partition crosses the 1024
cylinder boundary and may not be bootable".

This is a new Dell computer. Is there any way around this problem (short
of reformatting and reinstalling)??

PQMagic version? OS? File system?

 

[jameshanley39]

When I select the C drive and click "Partition - Move/Resize",
The graph window opens and includes a line "this partition crosses the 1024
cylinder boundary and may not be bootable".

This is a new Dell computer. Is there any way around this problem (short
of reformatting and reinstalling)??

yeah, press ok to continue or something!!

I had that error before, and googled it, and found that many others
had that error and didn't have a problem. I went ahead and it was
fine. I recall reading an explanation of why it wouldn't be a problem
or when it was.. maybe a historical thing. I didn't bother thinking
about it though, after reading people saying it'd be ok. But the
explanation is around somewhere if you search, and you want to read
it!

 

[John Doe]

yeah, press ok to continue

Right. He's not being stopped.

As always, have a removable media copy or two of any important files
from your hard drive.

 

[DaveW]

No.

 

[Ed Cregger]

No.

While we're talking about the new crappy Vista, how can I delete it from the
hard drive so that I can install XP? Nothing I try works, so far.

Ed Cregger

 

[Frank McCoy]

While we're talking about the new crappy Vista, how can I delete it from the
hard drive so that I can install XP? Nothing I try works, so far.

Ed Cregger

Get an old Installation Floppy of Win-98 and use FDISK to remove any
partitions it finds on the drive.

 

[Sjouke Burry]

Get an old Installation Floppy of Win-98 and use FDISK to remove any
partitions it finds on the drive.

But first get the new fdisk.exe which MS offers.
It can handle the newer big disks.

 

[Frank McCoy]

In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Sjouke Burry

But first get the new fdisk.exe which MS offers.
It can handle the newer big disks.

Didn't know they had a later version.
If so, then that's good advice.

However, even the old version, while it couldn't *partition* the larger
disks, still does a fine job of *removing* all found partitions.

 

[jameshanley39]

But first get the new fdisk.exe which MS offers.
It can handle the newer big disks.- Hide quoted text -

But can it handle all regarding . NTFS.
I think there may have been an issue with the old one, where if you
had an NTFS partition and a few logical partitions in it, it couldn't
delete the NTFS partition.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310359
"Fdisk cannot recognize NTFS logical drives in an extended partition,
and therefore deletes the NTFS logical drive if it occurs before the
logical drive using the FAT file system."

and there may be a more serious issue , because that kb page describes
trying to delete one partition and deleting another one instead (it
doesn't say if that's due to PEBCAK or an Fdisk bug, or what degree of
mixture).

if you want to delete all partitions then it's certainly safe to try.

Actually. Partition Magic rescue disks (PM for DOS), has an fdisk on
them, that may see NTFS properly, even logical NTFS partitions.
I haven't tested it. But it looked a bit better than normal fdisk. (a
bit more detail, and sensibly, an option to wipe the mbr, no need for
a hidden switch)

note - those disks use Caldera DOS - not that it matters. I guess it
just means a different boot record is on the floppy, and it has 2
files called IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM which may be the equivalent of
io.sys and command.com . maybe. I don't know caldera.. But it works
similar enough to MS-DOS, and I guess the external programs/commands
are interchangeable.

Besides fdisk, there are other ways to delete partitions without going
into windows.

The windows xp setup cd has a thing to remove partitions. And it
wouldn't have an NTFS bug like fdisk. Since you want to install win xp
anyway, you may as well continue with the setup after deleting vista.