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Partitionmagic 8 problems by Vilkku on 09-21-2006 at 04:37 AM
Hello, I have a problem with Partition magic that seems to be totally unfamiliar to the internet except for one forum post I found:
quote:I have more or less the same symptoms and problem: I have a small partition (15gb, I wanna resize it so I can upgrade to RC1) that I can't resize no matter how hard I try. It also, instead of proper labels, have ?é?. It also shows it as 100% used in PartitionMagic even if it has 5 or so gb of free space. When I want to check it's properties, it gives error #4444 and I can't use PartitionMagics own error check (chkdsk works fine).
The symptoms I'm seeing are, PQM8 shows all my drive letters fine, apart from one small 30GB SATA volume, which is shown as "?o? (F: )", so the question marks are obviously a clue. The Copy option was disabled for this volume, along with many of the other tasks you might want to do, such as Resize/Move, Label, etc. Evidently, PQM8 is somehow unhappy with the formatting or content of the drive.
On my mystery drive, I have Windows Vista Beta 1 installed, so I immediatelly assumed this was the problem - that Vista maybe uses a newer revision of NTFS that XP doesn't recognise, but I see your post far pre-dates Vista.
I'll continue to investigate and post back here if I find anything.
JJ