Partition Magic 8.. cant resize (larger) Primary partition

[George Hester]

both

 

[George Hester]

There was a update patch to version 5. That's the one I have. It wasn't
available in stores.

 

[kony]

both

You're certain that if you booted to a PM boot floppy and
ran it, it wouldn't work because it's the Server OS version?
That's news to me. What exactly does it report?

 

[jamesbohner]

PM states something to the effect that it can't run on the specified
OS. I'm not sure what it's checking, but I have found ways around it
in the past. Let me do some checking with PM8 and I'll report back on
what I find.

 

[Bob]

There was a update patch to version 5. That's the one I have. It wasn't
available in stores.

Where is this patch now?


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[kony]

Where is this patch now?

I believe Symantec dropped support for older versions so
unless you known the FTP URL (which I dont' recall and don't
even know if it's still up) you're out of luck... unless
someone here provides a download for it or you can find it
with Goggle et al.

 

[Bob]

I believe Symantec dropped support for older versions so
unless you known the FTP URL (which I dont' recall and don't
even know if it's still up) you're out of luck... unless
someone here provides a download for it or you can find it
with Goggle et al.

Thanks anyway - I don't actually use PM because it never worked. It
always complained that the cylinder count exceeded 1024 so it could
not partition a bootable disk.

I use Western Digital Data Lifeguard's partition/format utility. Works
slicker than owl shit. However it does not have provision for clearing
the Active bit, so I have to use MBR Wizard to clear it.

As far as resizing a partition, you can use the above to create the
new partition on a disk and then use Acronis True Image 8 to lay off
the disk clone to it. If that is not your target disk, then re-clone
from that intermediate disk. Acronis takes 1 minute per gigabyte so
the whole operation is fast. I like it because I know what is going on
each step.


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"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge

 

[George Hester]

Hope you can. It got disabled on PM 7 and above. Not sure what it looks at
either.

 

[George Hester]

Yes certain.

 

[George Hester]

As far as I remember you had to call PowerQuest to get it. It was actually
the whole package just updated.

 

[Ronald Reitch LMT]

I have to defend PM! I have used it for the last 4 years and I have
never lost data and it makes the partitions exactly the way I instruct
it to. Think you have to approach it (PM) with some analytical
thinking.
Good Luck!

 

[Ronald Reitch LMT]

I have the last (7 &8) version before symantec took over.

 

[kony]

Thanks anyway - I don't actually use PM because it never worked. It
always complained that the cylinder count exceeded 1024 so it could
not partition a bootable disk.

"Never"?

Were you using it on screwed-up drive geometry like HP and
Compaq used to use?

 

[Bob]

"Never"?

Never. It always said that the 1024 cyl boundary had been exceeded and
therefore the disk would not be bootable.

Were you using it on screwed-up drive geometry like HP and
Compaq used to use?

I had this problem on two completely different generic systems, both
of which used a Phoenix Award BIOS in AUTO mode.

Someone said I needed a patch from Power Quest, but since I no longer
use PM I am not going to waste the time chasing it down.


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