PARTITION MAGIC ERROR 100 - MY FIX

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I had a partition magic error 100, when trying to resize partitions.
The PM help suggested reformatting the hard disk which seemed drastic,
so I google searched for the error, and found thousands of similar
problems

The error was reported in some places as being related to a (HP)
printer with a card reader, and the problem disappeared when the
printer was disconnected.

It occurred to me that I have an external drive attached, in my case
160Gig Lacie Hard Disk.

I disconnected the drive, and magically, PM was OK again.

THEREFORE

TRY DISCONNECTING ANY REMOVABLE DRIVES AS A FIRST STEP TO SOLVING THIS
PROBLEM ----- GOOD LUCK
 
I had a partition magic error 100, when trying to resize partitions.
The PM help suggested reformatting the hard disk which seemed drastic,
so I google searched for the error, and found thousands of similar
problems

The error was reported in some places as being related to a (HP)
printer with a card reader, and the problem disappeared when the
printer was disconnected.

It occurred to me that I have an external drive attached, in my case
160Gig Lacie Hard Disk.

I disconnected the drive, and magically, PM was OK again.

THEREFORE

TRY DISCONNECTING ANY REMOVABLE DRIVES AS A FIRST STEP TO SOLVING THIS
PROBLEM ----- GOOD LUCK
Click to expand...

Forget PM, this program is better and free. Burn a LiveCD version and boot
to that.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
 
gemma-the-husky said:
I had a partition magic error 100, when trying to resize partitions.
The PM help suggested reformatting the hard disk which seemed drastic,
so I google searched for the error, and found thousands of similar problems

The error was reported in some places as being related to a (HP)
printer with a card reader, and the problem disappeared when the
printer was disconnected.

It occurred to me that I have an external drive attached, in my case
160Gig Lacie Hard Disk.
Click to expand...
I disconnected the drive, and magically, PM was OK again.
Click to expand...

Magic indeed. An error that can go away two ways:
either remove some peripheral or reformat.
Apparently error 100 is : haven't got faintest clue, try anything.
 
Garrot said:
Forget PM, this program is better and free. Burn a LiveCD version and
boot to that.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Click to expand...

Apparently it does mirroring too, which is left out of PM just so they can
sell Ghost as well.

How is gparted at detecting USB drives? Most of the systems I encounter are
Dell, and Ghost's boot CD often doesn't like Dell's USB ports.
 
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