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Old February 23rd 11, 12:07 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.win98.disks.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
glee
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Default PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help

"Arno" wrote in message
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage glee
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"98 Guy" wrote in message
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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?
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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