Partitioning using Partition Magic 8

[Guest]

Any attempt i make to partition the C: drive results in a blue screen and the
message that the reformation of my disk was abandoned.

Similarly whenever I use the DOS screen, any attempt to create a new
partiion results in a negative response - ie it is impossible.

There is plenty of space on the disk and i cannot understand how this occurs.

I should be most grateful for assistance.

George Harrison

 

[Guest]

I should have mentioned that I am using Windows XP Home Edition

 

[Richard Urban]

I sounds like the partition table on your C: drive is corrupted. Delete ALL
partitions on the drive. Reboot with the first Partition Magic floppy in the
floppy drive. Continue on to floppy two. Create new partitions on your C:
drive.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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!

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately all of this is happening on my laptop - a Toshiba P20 - which
has everything but the kitchen sink and NO floppy drive! Only CD and DVD.

George

 

[Richard Urban]

External USB floppy drive and set of two Partition Magic "8.01" disks?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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!

 

[Guest]

It's sad that Symantec chose such a primitive medium as a floppy drive for
the back-up disks when it is almost defunct. However, I managed to alter
the BIOS settings and make the CD drive a bootable drive and placed the
Patition Magic disk in the drive on start up. This takes one into a DOS-
like atmosphere which is clunky and rather weird. Unfortuately i failed to
make any progress for it would allow me to make only a small drive of a few
MB.

Many thanks for your interest and help though. I do rather like this forum!

George Harrison

 

[Richard Urban]

Well, if you were able to boot from the CD and run Partition Magic, you are
on the right track. The trouble is that you don't understand about the
various drive formats. You choose to format the drive as fat. This will give
you a maximum of a 2 gig partition. If you choose either fat32 or NTFS, you
can format the whole drive as one partition - assuming that your motherboard
and it's bios will allow this.

So, you may, in fact, have a M/B-bios limitation coming into play here.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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!

 

[Guest]

Both partitions are listed by Partition Magic as NTFS. No mention of FAT or
FAT32 or any other form of obesity!

George Harrison