Partition Magic 8.. cant resize (larger) Primary partition

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There was a update patch to version 5. That's the one I have. It wasn't
available in stores.
 
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You're certain that if you booted to a PM boot floppy and
ran it, it wouldn't work because it's the Server OS version?
That's news to me. What exactly does it report?
 
PM states something to the effect that it can't run on the specified
OS. I'm not sure what it's checking, but I have found ways around it
in the past. Let me do some checking with PM8 and I'll report back on
what I find.
 
There was a update patch to version 5. That's the one I have. It wasn't
available in stores.
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Where is this patch now?


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Where is this patch now?
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I believe Symantec dropped support for older versions so
unless you known the FTP URL (which I dont' recall and don't
even know if it's still up) you're out of luck... unless
someone here provides a download for it or you can find it
with Goggle et al.
 
I believe Symantec dropped support for older versions so
unless you known the FTP URL (which I dont' recall and don't
even know if it's still up) you're out of luck... unless
someone here provides a download for it or you can find it
with Goggle et al.
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Thanks anyway - I don't actually use PM because it never worked. It
always complained that the cylinder count exceeded 1024 so it could
not partition a bootable disk.

I use Western Digital Data Lifeguard's partition/format utility. Works
slicker than owl shit. However it does not have provision for clearing
the Active bit, so I have to use MBR Wizard to clear it.

As far as resizing a partition, you can use the above to create the
new partition on a disk and then use Acronis True Image 8 to lay off
the disk clone to it. If that is not your target disk, then re-clone
from that intermediate disk. Acronis takes 1 minute per gigabyte so
the whole operation is fast. I like it because I know what is going on
each step.


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Map of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/vrwc.html

"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge
 
As far as I remember you had to call PowerQuest to get it. It was actually
the whole package just updated.
 
I have to defend PM! I have used it for the last 4 years and I have
never lost data and it makes the partitions exactly the way I instruct
it to. Think you have to approach it (PM) with some analytical
thinking.
Good Luck!
 
Thanks anyway - I don't actually use PM because it never worked. It
always complained that the cylinder count exceeded 1024 so it could
not partition a bootable disk.
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"Never"?

Were you using it on screwed-up drive geometry like HP and
Compaq used to use?
 
"Never"?
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Never. It always said that the 1024 cyl boundary had been exceeded and
therefore the disk would not be bootable.
Were you using it on screwed-up drive geometry like HP and
Compaq used to use?
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I had this problem on two completely different generic systems, both
of which used a Phoenix Award BIOS in AUTO mode.

Someone said I needed a patch from Power Quest, but since I no longer
use PM I am not going to waste the time chasing it down.


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