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Adam
November 4th 04, 01:24 PM
My system is running Win98SE.

I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed.

When I try to copy a partition to
a new 120 GB HDD (Seagate ST3120026A),
I get the following error message:
"Error 626. Operation is to be performed on
a hard drive not visible from boot-mode."

This error message occurs when PM8 goes into
DOS to execute operations in batch mode.

Anyone know what's wrong?

Adam
November 4th 04, 05:58 PM
The problem was that the two HDDs were placed on
two different channels, "Primary IDE" (source) and
"Primary ATA100" (destination). [My motherboard has
four channels, "Primary IDE", "Secondary IDE",
"Primary ATA100" and "Secondary ATA100".]

For some reason, PartitionMagic 8 is not able to
operate on HDDs on the "Primary ATA100" channel while
in DOS/Batch mode.

This problem was resolved by placing both HDDs on
the same "Primary IDE" channel.

PartitionMagic 8 (with a copyright year of 2002) rocks!



"Adam" > wrote in message
. com...
>
> My system is running Win98SE.
>
> I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed.
>
> When I try to copy a partition to
> a new 120 GB HDD (Seagate ST3120026A),
> I get the following error message:
> "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on
> a hard drive not visible from boot-mode."
>
> This error message occurs when PM8 goes into
> DOS to execute operations in batch mode.
>
> Anyone know what's wrong?
>