Warning... Partition magic "hide" not compatible with Vista

[MicroFox]

I read somewhere on a newsgroup that there was a problem with
XP and Vista when you dual boot in regaurd to the restore points made...

This post continued saying that you should hide the partition with a program
so this problem
would not occure... I had partition magic (latest ver.) on XP so I hid the
Vista partition...

and vista could not boot.. I then put it back to non-hidden and it worked
again...

Just a note in case someone is thinking about doing this with PM

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Good catch. Thanks. Can you post the version number of the PM you used?

 

[Richard Urban]

Partition Magic 8.01 is not compatible with Vista created/formatted
partitions.

Acronis Disk Director, when run from the boot CD, is a much better choice.

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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!

 

[MicroFox]

Version 8.01 (Build 1274)

This was a very good partition manager but as richard said it is not fully
compatible with
the latest technologies....

The latest Acronis Disk Director Suite v10.0.2089 that came out a few days
ago should be vista compatible.

I just happened to have PM loaded.. thats why I used it...

 

[Guest]

Glad to see that even though you hate Vista, you still have it installed,
and despite your nonsense posts you can also be quite helpful

Colin T

 

[MicroFox]

I have been installing vista since longhorn times... wishing, hoping to see
some revolution...
in the betas I was hopping that it would improve... first the betas, then
the rc's and now RTM.

I have tested them all... and I stand by my opinion, which has been formed
through observations.

I probably have tested vista and longhorn longer than the 98% of the people
that come in here saying vista is wonderful! lol

I cant even remember what the first build I had was.. its ages ago....

 

[Dale]

I told you before; soon it will be MicroFox MVP

LOL

Dale

 

[Chad Harris]

MF--

This has been covered well here and MSFT has been notified months and scores
of times before here and in here and Jill Zoeller did nothing to take care
of this in Vista RTM and maybe when months go by she'll get aournd to
writing an MSKB on it.

Don't use Partition Magic to hide the partition. There are other methods
that won't cause problems and they have been covered in a lot of threads
here and this problem was reported to MSFT months and months ago even last
year and they ignored it feigning ignorance on this very group (Jill Zoeller
[MSFT]) and it was bugged to several members of her team, to Eduardo
Laureano the PM on the System Restore team, etc. etc--to people who work
with Darrell Gorter. MSFT cherry picks their bugs and thinks whatever they
do is impeccable and perfect. For years they have neglected that
configuration of Driver Verifier can prevent a significant number of blue
screens in XP and in Vista.

CH

 

[Guest]

I wouldn't bet against it though I'm sure Minicub would have to have TMVP,
the T standing for "THE" and perhaps when you read one of his posts a wav
file of Tina Turner's "Simply the best," should play;-)

Colin T

 

[Richard Urban]

Acronis Disk Director is up to 10.0. build 2117.

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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!

 

[MicroFox]

I don't want to be an MVP.... titles and free gifts have no meaning to me...

you guys don't know me... I have helped thousands of people on newsgroups
without complaining ever about anything... this is a first, just because of
vista...

In fact I love all software that Microsoft made until now.

I was the one who was telling everyone how Microsoft changed the world by
brining easy
and accessible platforms and applications to the average person...

And it is true.... but it is extremely surprising that they did such a bad
job on the vista era applications.
And what is more surprising is that most people have no clue what the heck I
am talking about....

 

[MicroFox]

yeah...
I have seen some noise about this in the past... but I was wishing that they
had fixed it in rtm...

MF--

This has been covered well here and MSFT has been notified months and
scores of times before here and in here and Jill Zoeller did nothing to
take care of this in Vista RTM and maybe when months go by she'll get
aournd to writing an MSKB on it.

Don't use Partition Magic to hide the partition. There are other methods
that won't cause problems and they have been covered in a lot of threads
here and this problem was reported to MSFT months and months ago even last
year and they ignored it feigning ignorance on this very group (Jill
Zoeller [MSFT]) and it was bugged to several members of her team, to
Eduardo Laureano the PM on the System Restore team, etc. etc--to people
who work with Darrell Gorter. MSFT cherry picks their bugs and thinks
whatever they do is impeccable and perfect. For years they have neglected
that configuration of Driver Verifier can prevent a significant number of
blue screens in XP and in Vista.

CH

I read somewhere on a newsgroup that there was a problem with
XP and Vista when you dual boot in regaurd to the restore points made...

This post continued saying that you should hide the partition with a
program so this problem
would not occure... I had partition magic (latest ver.) on XP so I hid
the Vista partition...

and vista could not boot.. I then put it back to non-hidden and it worked
again...

Just a note in case someone is thinking about doing this with PM

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Partition Magic 8.01 is not compatible with Vista created/formatted
partitions.

What means 'not compatible'? Do you have some background information?
It only can mean that MS has added new features to the partitoning
mechanisms... What are they and what are they good for?


Uwe

 

[Richard Urban]

Search on my name. I have posted here 2-3 times already exactly what occurs
and how it can destroy your drives/partitions, causing a loss of information
and a rebuild of the system partition.

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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!

 

[Ed.]

Try out bootit from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

I don't have these problems using it. I also use their other products for
imaging as well for multi booting, resizing, creating and other partition
work.