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PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.
For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows 98, I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the only active win-98 group on usenet these days. Adam wrote: My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. When I try to copy a partition, I get the following error message: "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode." You might want to look at this: http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest? Anyone know what's wrong? Are you cloning a partition from one drive to another? I recommend you find something called "Hiren's boot disk" or boot cd. It's on the internet in various locations. Easy to find and download. It's a bootable CD that contains dozens of hard drive utilities and programs. It will do exactly what you want. And you might want to poke into the win-98 discussion forum on msfn.org once in a while. Lots of good stuff happening there regarding win-98. |
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PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion. For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows 98, I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the only active win-98 group on usenet these days. You might want to look at this: http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest? snip Um, yeah....where have you been for the past 7 years? Symantec bought up Powerquest at the start of 2004. They killed Drive Image and absorbed the Drive Image technology into Ghost. They took over Partition Magic and then killed it. Another in a long list of quality software either killed or emasculated by Symantec. ....glen |
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PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage glee wrote:
"98 Guy" wrote in message ... I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion. For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows 98, I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the only active win-98 group on usenet these days. You might want to look at this: http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest? snip Um, yeah....where have you been for the past 7 years? Symantec bought up Powerquest at the start of 2004. They killed Drive Image and absorbed the Drive Image technology into Ghost. They took over Partition Magic and then killed it. Another in a long list of quality software either killed or emasculated by Symantec. ...glen gparted is a very reasonable GNU replacement for partition magic. Other then PM, it has never killed any drives for me so far. With PM, my experience in mor ecomplex cnages is 2 out of 3 failed with the disk messed yup enough that a fresh partitioning was needed. So maybe Sumantec did the world a vavour. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
"Arno" wrote in message
... In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage glee wrote: "98 Guy" wrote in message ... I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion. For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows 98, I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the only active win-98 group on usenet these days. You might want to look at this: http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest? snip Um, yeah....where have you been for the past 7 years? Symantec bought up Powerquest at the start of 2004. They killed Drive Image and absorbed the Drive Image technology into Ghost. They took over Partition Magic and then killed it. Another in a long list of quality software either killed or emasculated by Symantec. ...glen gparted is a very reasonable GNU replacement for partition magic. Other then PM, it has never killed any drives for me so far. With PM, my experience in mor ecomplex cnages is 2 out of 3 failed with the disk messed yup enough that a fresh partitioning was needed. So maybe Sumantec did the world a vavour. I used PM4, PM5 and PM8, and never had any problems with it....except the "Merge Partitions" feature that was introduced with PM5 and was well-known to have issues, so I simply performed such operations in 2 steps instead of using that feature. ....glen |
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PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
In article , Arno
writes gparted is a very reasonable GNU replacement for partition magic. Other then PM, it has never killed any drives for me so far. Same here. It's rather slow, but I would rather have slow and reliable than fast and unreliable. With PM, my experience in mor ecomplex cnages is 2 out of 3 failed with the disk messed yup enough that a fresh partitioning was needed. PM8 was OK for me, with one exception: if it popped up a dialog on startup saying it had found a partition table/CHS inconsistency and would you like PM to fix it, saying yes trashed the disk. If you ignored the message and carried on it worked fine. So maybe Sumantec did the world a vavour. Anyone that inflicts Norton (anti-virus, system commander, etc.) on the world is hardly doing the world a favour ) They're worse than the viruses and malware they claim to be able to detect. -- (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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