I have PM 4 that complains that my partition table is corrupt when I've
installed either Linux (Mandrake) or Win98. It's quite happy with NT4 and
Win95. PM5 has no problems with my Linux/98/NT4 setup, but I find I don't
need it any more. Installing 98 then NT then linux made em all happy.
--- Mike Corbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mage Grimau wrote:
>
> > Which version of partition magic? 4 doesn't work right for 98 OR linux.
>
> 4 should work, because 3.0 did. Actually, I don't know if it worked for
> win98, but it did work for win95 and linux (ext2), as well as many other
> operating systems. However, I spoke with a computer store clerk last
> december who said that althought 98 didn't exist when pm 3.0 came out, 3.0
> worked for his 98 system. 3.0 also worked for nt.
>
> I don't think you should have any problems using 4 for 98 and I'ld even use
> 3.0 for 98.
>
> Fire it up and read the documentation for 4.
>
> Are you considering purchasing pm 4 or borrowing it, because 4 is not the
> current release, which is at least 5.0; unless that's been backed out.
>
> You can also check PM's web site. The company is or was named PowerQuest,
> but if it's changed, then do a search on "partition magic". Should be easy
> to find.
>
>
> mike
>
>
> >
> >
> > --- lorne schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I've got an interesting problem. 1 have a 2-disk system, 12G and 4G
> > > split as follows:
> > >
> > > cdrive - 8G Windows98 and 4G Linux
> > > ddrive - 3G Windows98 and 1G Linux.
> > >
> > > I boot Windows directly and Linux from a floppy (because I'm past the
> > > 1024 sector boundary?).
> > > What I want to do is to shrink the Windows partition (I'm only using
> > > about 2G of it) and use the
> > > rest as more Linux partition. I'm trying to run Partiton Magic to do
> > > this, but it keeps telling me
> > > that my partition table is bad. It might be, but that's the only place
> > > where there's a problem
> > > since the two OS's run fine on their own.
> > >
> > > The partition table is as follows (for the first drive)
> > >
> > > partition 1 0 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63
> > > partition 2 1023 - 0 - 0 thru 1023-255-63
> > >
> > > Clearly, this information is bad, but it won't let me change it to more
> > > reasonable values.
> > >
> > > Any one have any ideas - my next step is to get ahold of the Power
> Quest
> > > folks for their
> > > help.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Lorne
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lorne Schachter
> > > (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX)
> > > http://www.intact.com/~lorne
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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