Hello,

I'm running windows XP with SP2.

I want to install longhorn on my pc. I run Partition Magic 8, and all is ok since I reboot :(

Partition magic cannont find the "boot sequential" and I have to hit a key to continue :blink: I hit the reset and reboot, the same screen with Partition magic and hit the reset again....................After I hit the F8 and choose load the last known good configuration and all is ok, but I don't have my new partition <_<

Any help ?

Thanks

Sorry, I don't use Partition Magic beacuse it has fucked me many times.

Good luck getting it figured out.

I would make a ghost though with norton ghost or something before you continue incase everything its totally messed up.

cya,
Will

Still need help please :(

Thanks

@bads - couldn't find any reference to
boot sequential in the PDF file for PM 8

Any chance that you have a dual boot set up already?

Richard,

I don't have have a dual boot :(

I just check with msconfig and my boot.ini is correct

I wish I could help you, but I don't use Partition Magic. I don't even have a partition on my HD. :o

I thought I'd reply here and if nothing else bump you on the front page for others to see and help. :)

yeah, I have not had alot of luck with PM either; I was gonna do the same thing; that is partition my XP machine and try Longhorn, but I had the same prob when trying to make another partition..

Still checking around to see if there are any other "easier" partition proggies!



wase4711

wase4711

@bads
just wondering whether you had another version/instance/install of PM? Have you tried uninstalling PM and reinstalling it on C:\ and rebooting several times before trying to creat another partiton?

@wase4711 - have you looked at this one?
_http://www.ranish.com/part/

I will retry to make my partition and see what is exactly the "message"

You're in trouble. PM8 has Fked up your MBR. I never did figure out how to edit the MBR so I had to do a low level format! I now use Acronis Partition Expert.

Good luck!


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If this is the MBR, I can repair it with the XP installation CD ;)

@richard2000
I'll Check that proggie out..Looks a little too "Dos like" for me though!

@tubebuoy
Thanks for the suggestion about Acronis; I 'll check that one out also!




wase4711 :cheers:

Hum..........

I will try Acronis Partition Expert ;)

Ya, you should use FDISK instead. It's old, and reliable. Oh ya!

Yeap i use fdisk.

Just had to do low level format last time since the ms dos fdisk does not work 100% with ntfs, if at all.

If you're having trouble with the MBR, use the FDISK command with /MBR switch. I thought I had erased a Linux partition, but it would never format. The FDISK command with the above switch clears the MBR and fixed it. It was also good to clear viruses, if your conventional memory in CHKDSK showed anything else but 655,360, you had a virus and this would fix it.

I'm using PM for years now, never had problems !!!
Did you try to make the disks , and start from dos ?
PM uses a kind of batch , I think thats the problem not finding the "boot seq.."