Partition Magic 8.01 and Vista = **HEADS UP**

[Richard Urban]

After very thorough testing, it appears that Partition Magic 8.01 is not
compatible with NTFS partitions created during the install of Vista RC1 (and
earlier versions of Vista).

After installing Vista, if you boot from the P.M. floppies you will get an
error message (error 110) that the partition is corrupt and asks if you want
to fix it.

You had better say NO!

If you don't allow P.M. to fix it, and continue booting into P.M. the drive
will show as corrupt and give the former error, superimposed on the
partition graphic. At this time, if you just reboot, everything will still
be fine. Vista will still boot.

If you allow P.M. to repair the partition you will now see error 11. At this
point the damage has been done and Vista will no longer boot.

Guess it is time to retire this venerable old workhorse of a program, as I
am not going to buy Symantec's version just to see if it is compatible.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[John Barnes]

Careful, Symantec's site says none of their Consumer software is compatible
with Vista.
Also, you can run the P.M. from the bootable cd. Should give you no
problems from that level.

 

[Richard Urban]

Bootable floppies give the error. Running from within Windows XP gives the
error on the drive that has Vista installed.

It is not compatible.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Michael Cecil]

Bootable floppies give the error. Running from within Windows XP gives the
error on the drive that has Vista installed.

It is not compatible.

Or perhaps your Vista partition was corrupt (in a manner that offends PM
at least) before installation. I've used PM (from within XP and from DOS
floppies) on Vista partitions 4 different times so far, including 5600,
without any complaints or problems. While Vista adds some new metafiles,
there are no intrinsic changes to the partition structure AFAIK.

One way to make PM work with partitions that have non-fatal errors is to
use the /ipe switch, but of course, I don't know if that would work in
your case.

 

[Pen]

Or perhaps your Vista partition was corrupt (in a manner that offends PM
at least) before installation. I've used PM (from within XP and from DOS
floppies) on Vista partitions 4 different times so far, including 5600,
without any complaints or problems. While Vista adds some new metafiles,
there are no intrinsic changes to the partition structure AFAIK.

One way to make PM work with partitions that have non-fatal errors is to
use the /ipe switch, but of course, I don't know if that would work in
your case.

I installed Vista in a partition created by PM8 and while Vista installed
just fine PM8 can no longer deal with it. Only the browser works all other
operations give errors.

 

[Richard Urban]

I created a new partition on a new drive (160 gig SATA) using the Windows
installer. Vista RC1 operates just fine.

Booting with PM floppies, PM 8.01 throws up an error code 110.

I say no to the repair and PM opens with the total drive, both the Vista
partition and the free space as BAD.

I can still boot into Vista RC1 and use it just fine. The logical partitions
that I
create in the free space can be used by Vista RC1 and Windows XP just fine,
both read and
write.

If I allow PM to correct the error - **BIG MISTAKE** - I lose Vista RC1 and
the logical partitions. Vista will no longer boot up and the logical
partition are no longer available to Windows XP.

I can replicate this at will on three different computers, two set up for
dual booting and another with only Vista RC1 on it.

Booting from a freshly created set of boot up floppies make no difference.

PM can not see the Vista created partitions correctly.


--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Michael Cecil]

I created a new partition on a new drive (160 gig SATA) using the Windows
installer. Vista RC1 operates just fine.

Booting with PM floppies, PM 8.01 throws up an error code 110.

I say no to the repair and PM opens with the total drive, both the Vista
partition and the free space as BAD.

I can still boot into Vista RC1 and use it just fine. The logical partitions
that I
create in the free space can be used by Vista RC1 and Windows XP just fine,
both read and
write.

If I allow PM to correct the error - **BIG MISTAKE** - I lose Vista RC1 and
the logical partitions. Vista will no longer boot up and the logical
partition are no longer available to Windows XP.

I can replicate this at will on three different computers, two set up for
dual booting and another with only Vista RC1 on it.

Booting from a freshly created set of boot up floppies make no difference.

PM can not see the Vista created partitions correctly.

Well, the only thing I can come up with is that I've used PM 8.05 (so
maybe they added better large drive support after 8.01, although I thought
they only added copy protection to the software) and not tried any SATA
drives (so maybe there is something going on with the SATA drivers or some
kind of incompatibility there. I haven't had any problems using it.