PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
 

I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.

For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows 98,
I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the
only active win-98 group on usenet these days.

Adam wrote:

My system is running Win98SE.

I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed.

When I try to copy a partition, I get the following error message:
"Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible
from boot-mode."

You might want to look at this:

http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID

I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest?

Anyone know what's wrong?

Are you cloning a partition from one drive to another?

I recommend you find something called "Hiren's boot disk" or boot cd.
It's on the internet in various locations. Easy to find and download.
It's a bootable CD that contains dozens of hard drive utilities and
programs. It will do exactly what you want.

And you might want to poke into the win-98 discussion forum on msfn.org
once in a while. Lots of good stuff happening there regarding win-98.

PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
 

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.

For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows
98,
I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the
only active win-98 group on usenet these days.


You might want to look at this:

http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID

I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest?
snip

Um, yeah....where have you been for the past 7 years? Symantec bought
up Powerquest at the start of 2004. They killed Drive Image and
absorbed the Drive Image technology into Ghost. They took over
Partition Magic and then killed it. Another in a long list of quality
software either killed or emasculated by Symantec.

....glen

PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
 

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage glee wrote:
"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.

For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows
98,
I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the
only active win-98 group on usenet these days.


You might want to look at this:

http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID

I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest?
snip

Um, yeah....where have you been for the past 7 years? Symantec bought
up Powerquest at the start of 2004. They killed Drive Image and
absorbed the Drive Image technology into Ghost. They took over
Partition Magic and then killed it. Another in a long list of quality
software either killed or emasculated by Symantec.

...glen

gparted is a very reasonable GNU replacement for partition
magic. Other then PM, it has never killed any drives for
me so far. With PM, my experience in mor ecomplex cnages is
2 out of 3 failed with the disk messed yup enough that a
fresh partitioning was needed.

So maybe Sumantec did the world a vavour.

Arno
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PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
 

"Arno" wrote in message
...
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage glee
wrote:
"98 Guy" wrote in message
...
I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.

For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows
98,
I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much the
only active win-98 group on usenet these days.


You might want to look at this:

http://id.norton.com/support/kb/web_...111EN&ln=en_ID

I guess Norton bought / owns PowerQuest?
snip

Um, yeah....where have you been for the past 7 years? Symantec
bought
up Powerquest at the start of 2004. They killed Drive Image and
absorbed the Drive Image technology into Ghost. They took over
Partition Magic and then killed it. Another in a long list of
quality
software either killed or emasculated by Symantec.

...glen

gparted is a very reasonable GNU replacement for partition
magic. Other then PM, it has never killed any drives for
me so far. With PM, my experience in mor ecomplex cnages is
2 out of 3 failed with the disk messed yup enough that a
fresh partitioning was needed.

So maybe Sumantec did the world a vavour.

I used PM4, PM5 and PM8, and never had any problems with it....except
the "Merge Partitions" feature that was introduced with PM5 and was
well-known to have issues, so I simply performed such operations in 2
steps instead of using that feature.

....glen

PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
 

In article , Arno
writes

gparted is a very reasonable GNU replacement for partition
magic. Other then PM, it has never killed any drives for
me so far.

Same here. It's rather slow, but I would rather have slow and reliable
than fast and unreliable.

With PM, my experience in mor ecomplex cnages is
2 out of 3 failed with the disk messed yup enough that a
fresh partitioning was needed.

PM8 was OK for me, with one exception: if it popped up a dialog on
startup saying it had found a partition table/CHS inconsistency and
would you like PM to fix it, saying yes trashed the disk. If you
ignored the message and carried on it worked fine.

So maybe Sumantec did the world a vavour.

Anyone that inflicts Norton (anti-virus, system commander, etc.) on the
world is hardly doing the world a favour :o) They're worse than the
viruses and malware they claim to be able to detect.

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