PARTITION MAGIC ERROR 100 - MY FIX

[gemma-the-husky]

I had a partition magic error 100, when trying to resize partitions.
The PM help suggested reformatting the hard disk which seemed drastic,
so I google searched for the error, and found thousands of similar
problems

The error was reported in some places as being related to a (HP)
printer with a card reader, and the problem disappeared when the
printer was disconnected.

It occurred to me that I have an external drive attached, in my case
160Gig Lacie Hard Disk.

I disconnected the drive, and magically, PM was OK again.

THEREFORE

TRY DISCONNECTING ANY REMOVABLE DRIVES AS A FIRST STEP TO SOLVING THIS
PROBLEM ----- GOOD LUCK

 

[Garrot]

I had a partition magic error 100, when trying to resize partitions.
The PM help suggested reformatting the hard disk which seemed drastic,
so I google searched for the error, and found thousands of similar
problems

The error was reported in some places as being related to a (HP)
printer with a card reader, and the problem disappeared when the
printer was disconnected.

It occurred to me that I have an external drive attached, in my case
160Gig Lacie Hard Disk.

I disconnected the drive, and magically, PM was OK again.

THEREFORE

TRY DISCONNECTING ANY REMOVABLE DRIVES AS A FIRST STEP TO SOLVING THIS
PROBLEM ----- GOOD LUCK

Forget PM, this program is better and free. Burn a LiveCD version and boot
to that.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

I had a partition magic error 100, when trying to resize partitions.
The PM help suggested reformatting the hard disk which seemed drastic,
so I google searched for the error, and found thousands of similar problems

The error was reported in some places as being related to a (HP)
printer with a card reader, and the problem disappeared when the
printer was disconnected.

It occurred to me that I have an external drive attached, in my case
160Gig Lacie Hard Disk.

I disconnected the drive, and magically, PM was OK again.

Magic indeed. An error that can go away two ways:
either remove some peripheral or reformat.
Apparently error 100 is : haven't got faintest clue, try anything.

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

Forget PM, this program is better and free. Burn a LiveCD version and
boot to that.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Apparently it does mirroring too, which is left out of PM just so they can
sell Ghost as well.

How is gparted at detecting USB drives? Most of the systems I encounter are
Dell, and Ghost's boot CD often doesn't like Dell's USB ports.