Partition Magic 8 changed drive letter partition

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Recently I was trying to resize the partition where I have XP Home on
to about 10 gigs more, and everything seemed to go fine until I had to
restart the computer to apply the changes. As it was applying the
changes, I got the error 626, which said that "the operation is to be
performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode." I don't know
what exactly that means, but I found out that when I rebooted, it
found a new drive, F. Actually, what it did was rename my old
partition J, to F, where I keep all my programs. Now, all the
programs are screwed up because of the target location is pointing to
J, which doesn't exist anymore -- now named F.

So, a) what can I do to get my "new" F partition back to J again, and
b) why the error 626 in the first place, and what does it mean. If
anyone knows of a better program out there than partition magic,
please help, too.

System specs:
XP Home
AMD Athlon 2.1 ghz
512 RAM
and so on...
 
LaphLaw said:
Recently I was trying to resize the partition where I have XP Home on
to about 10 gigs more, and everything seemed to go fine until I had to
restart the computer to apply the changes. As it was applying the
changes, I got the error 626, which said that "the operation is to be
performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode." I don't know
what exactly that means, but I found out that when I rebooted, it
found a new drive, F. Actually, what it did was rename my old
partition J, to F, where I keep all my programs. Now, all the
programs are screwed up because of the target location is pointing to
J, which doesn't exist anymore -- now named F.

So, a) what can I do to get my "new" F partition back to J again, and
b) why the error 626 in the first place, and what does it mean. If
anyone knows of a better program out there than partition magic,
please help, too.

System specs:
XP Home
AMD Athlon 2.1 ghz
512 RAM
and so on...
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You shouldn't be looking for other software. If you do not even know how to
change a drive letter in XP you just shouldn't mess with this kind of stuff
at all.
 
You shouldn't be looking for other software. If you do not even know how to
change a drive letter in XP you just shouldn't mess with this kind of stuff
at all.
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XP won't change the boot partition letter. I don't know anything that
will. Do you?


Steve
 
XP won't change the boot partition letter. I don't know anything that
will. Do you?
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Hello,

It appears PM allows you to do so. I didn't let it execute this though as
you will run into boot problems hen doing so.
 
You shouldn't be looking for other software. If you do not even know how to
change a drive letter in XP you just shouldn't mess with this kind of stuff
at all.
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For heaven's sake, Joep, the guy's looking for help, not snide
comments - were you never a newbie, wanting help? A gentle nudge that
PM is to be used with caution, perhaps, but not a pat on the head. You
don't even have any relevant input to the problem.

LaphLaw: Don't let Joep's response put you off NewsGroups - just
ignore the Trolls and know-it-alls.

As for your problem, as this is an old post you may have solved it -
if not, offf-the-cuff I'd recommend a backup of all your important
data to zip disk, CD, floppy or whatever (you could use PM for backup,
but that gets kind of recursive in the current situation <g>).

After that, have a look at PM's "Drive Mapper" - it *might* solve your
problem - did you accidentally use the PM "Split Partition" operation,
by the way?

But hey! Be careful with PM - it's a powerful beast! <g>.

PS
I Googled here, looking for a resolution to a similar problem - not a
regular haunt of mine, so if I don't respond to further posts I'm
lurking elsewhere.
 
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