Trouble creating a new partition with Partition Magic 8.0

[Meaty]

Hi all,

Here's the situation -- I am running a Maxtor DiamondPlus 9 80GB HD
and currently have only one partition on the drive. I am trying to
resize that partition and create a new 5GB partition so that I can
load Windows ME as a second OS. Problem is that when I attempt to
make the changes I get an Error 27 -- Cannot Lock Drive. I went ahead
and optimized the drive hoping that might cure the problem but it
didn't.
I guess the question is: is there a jumper or something that I have to
activate in order to create multiple partitions on a Maxtor drive?

Thanks for your help!
Meatball

 

[Wayne Morgan]

Since you have only one drive with one partition, that would make it the
drive Windows is running on. To accomplish this operation, you'll have to
let PM do it on a reboot. Sort of like running "chkdsk /f", you have to
reboot and let the work be done on bootup. Also, I don't think you would
have gotten this far if you had, but make sure you haven't set this drive as
Read Only in PM's options.

 

[Meaty]

Actually, PM did reboot the comp in order to make the changes. It is
during the reboot that the error messages come up. Do you think I
might have more success if I were to make use of the PM rescue disks?
Maybe booting to a DOS-type format might allow the changes to be made?

Just a thought...

 

[kony]

Actually, PM did reboot the comp in order to make the changes. It is
during the reboot that the error messages come up. Do you think I
might have more success if I were to make use of the PM rescue disks?
Maybe booting to a DOS-type format might allow the changes to be made?

Just a thought...

Use the rescue disks, though I don't recall what's on a "Rescue Disk", I
mean to have a bootable floppy with the DOS version on it.