Clint, Did you send Powerquest the partinfo for them to take a look at? I'm interested in their response if you did.
Ben Moore ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 3:35 AM Subject: PCWorks: UPDATE on the post "Drive Image 'warning' " > FYI, A couple of days ago I posted this email below. > Below it is a reply from Power Quest. (I mentioned > to them that Roger said he had to reformat when > he clicked "yes".) > -------------------------- > Does anyone know what this means and is IT SAFE to say "yes" > to it? This happens every time I click the Drive Image .exe > file. I'm afraid it may delete a whole partition...or worse. > http://orpheuscomputing.com/DriveImageWarning.gif > (link will be removed after answer is found). > > I don't know if this has anything to do with this; but I have > a partition that is not showing correctly. It is "G" and is > for my swap file. It was created as 2gb in size (while > formatting in DOS), shows as 1.85gb in WINDOWS under > "my computer", but in the device manager where > you chose the virtual memory, it showed as having OVER > 3GB FREE. That's 3gb FREE, it did not say the size of > G: drive. (it now shows as 1.9gb free, probably because > I just changed it to a fixed size). Also; in DOS, only 3 > partitions are showing (C, D, E) instead of the 5 I have > (+ E, F). > > Would these things have anything do with the Drive Image > warning? If not, what might be causing them? Scan disk > has never shown any errors. > > OS is Windows ME, HD is Western Digital WD800JB (80gb, > 7200rpm, 8mb buffer), 2.4ghz P4, & 512mb DDR RAM. > ALL partitions were formatted using the WD format utility > and ALL are FAT32. > -------------------------------- > > From Power Quest: > > Thank you for contacting us and we apologize for the delay > in responding. > > The snapshot is worth a million words. Drive Image 2002 > does an integrity check of the hard drive, if it detects a > problem an alert message will appear. In this case, a > partition that is larger than 8gbs isn't flagged correctly. > Yes, Drive Image offers to fix it and some of the time, it > does make a boo boo. If it was me I would not let Drive > Image correct it, say NO. Than generate a Partinfo > report and send to me to look at it first. > > You may also be able to find a solution to your question or > problem by accessing our Knowledge Base. We have > documented many answers to our most frequently asked > questions there for all versions of PowerQuest > Products. Browse to: > http://www.powerquest.com/support > ===================== ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
