Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:57:04 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Partitioning warning w/EZ-Drive & Partition Magic
In a message dated 11/23/2004 6:23:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I lost the single 30GB >8GB partition on my 40GB HDD > the other night while using Partition Magic to convert > 3 primary partitions before and after the 8GB border > to logical partitions on one big extended partition > straddling the 8GB boundry. > > This is the 2nd or 3rd time something like this has > happened, and I'm beginning to think that it has > something to do with EZ-Drive. The method I used was > to boot PM from a FD by hitting CTRL at the EZ-Drive > prompt. > > I converted 3 partitions to logical partitions one at > a time. 1st a 5GB primary partition <8GB. Then 2nd,the > partition for Libretto hibernation at the 8GB boundry. > Those both went fine. But attempting to convert the > 30GB primary partition >8GB resulted in PM freezing > about 1/2 the way from completion which made the > partition unrecognizable. Note: There is a 3GB > primary partition at the beginning of the drive. > > This has happened to me in a similar manner at least 2 > times in the past. But at least this time it was easy > to recover the partition data, as I've had a lot of > experience with recovery problems at this point. I > can highly recommend the Stellar Phoenix recovery > software. > > But if I ever do any >8GB partitioning on a Libby HDD > again, I'm going to 1st uninstall EZ-Drive, pull the > HDD and set it up in a desktop that can deal with > int13 extensions (is that the right term?), and run > Partition Magic from there. I'm suspecting that > something between the dance of PM, EZ-Drive and the > Libby BIOS is causing the problem. > > Just thought I'd add this to the archives if anyone > else every confronts a similar problem in the future. > > Don't suppose anyone else has seen something like > this, have they? > > Matt > I've done a fair amount of partitioning with PM (V6 and V8) on my L100 with EZBIOS active and have not encountered any problems. I did have a glitch once with Drive Image, but recovery was no problem. I LOVE Powerquest, too bad it's Norton now. Lee
