Partitioning problem with PartitionMagic 7.0

[Merrvyn Tay]

Dear Friends,

1) My system runs on Winxp Professional. I have a harddisk (80G) with 3
partitions, all formated as NTFS as follows:
C:20G
D:20G
E:40G

2) Recently, I tried to use PartitionMagic 7.0 to increase the space for C:.
I did so by doing a "resize" on C.
and drawing the free space from D or E drive. However the following message
appeared:

"Access violation at address 052DC00 in module 'PMagicNT.exe'. Read of
address 00000008."

3) I did not encounter such problem last time.

Can any kind soul please offer me any advice?

Thanks alot,
Merrvyn

 

[I'm Dan]

1) My system runs on Winxp Professional. I have a harddisk (80G) with 3
partitions, all formated as NTFS as follows:
C:20G
D:20G
E:40G

2) Recently, I tried to use PartitionMagic 7.0 to increase the space for C:.
I did so by doing a "resize" on C.
and drawing the free space from D or E drive. However the following message
appeared:

"Access violation at address 052DC00 in module 'PMagicNT.exe'. Read of
address 00000008."

3) I did not encounter such problem last time.

Can any kind soul please offer me any advice?

I've used PM for many years and will swear by it, but I would never try
performing what you want to do from within Windows. Yes, it's supposed to
work (and usually does), but trying to make such a major change to the
Windows partition while you're booted into Windows is a little like trying
to change a car tire while you're in the car driving. For your task, my
suggestions would be to run PM from floppies ("rescue disks") and to perform
the steps one at a time -- resize D and E first to leave unallocated space,
then resize C to take up that space. Trying to do too many steps at once
sometimes causes problems.