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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." This error message occurs when PM8 goes into DOS to execute operations in batch mode. Anyone know what's wrong? Svend, where are you? |
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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." This error message occurs when PM8 goes into DOS to execute operations in batch mode. Anyone know what's wrong? You can get some partitions not visible at the dos level that are visible at the Win level because Win does its own scan for drives and the partitions on them at boot time. PM 8 is pretty dinosaury. Acronis True Image allows you to do that sort of thing from what it calls a rescue CD which is a bootable Linux CD which may well be able to see the partition fine. |
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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. 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. |
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On 2/20/2011 12:53 PM PT, Rod Speed typed:
You can get some partitions not visible at the dos level that are visible at the Win level because Win does its own scan for drives and the partitions on them at boot time. PM 8 is pretty dinosaury. Acronis True Image allows you to do that sort of thing from what it calls a rescue CD which is a bootable Linux CD which may well be able to see the partition fine. He's still running Windows 98 SE with an old PC. It should be fine. ![]() -- "You know what you are Earl? You're a little, tiny, busy ant. You too, Mike. Both you guys, with your mortgages and your term life insurance and your webber kettles(??). Ant. Ant. All of you, you're all a bunch of little, busy, blind ants. All you all. Saving up for your rainy days. Scratching up your acorns for the winter. You look at me and you think, "What a piece of pathetic trash out there in that leaky trailer." No spoon, no fork, no prospects. But, you know why? Cause I'm a grasshopper. Ant. Grasshopper. Ant. Grasshopper. Ant. Grasshopper. Ant. Grasshopper. Ant!" --Chris in the bar, before being thrown out in "Jaws of Life"." /\___/\ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Ant wrote
Rod Speed wrote You can get some partitions not visible at the dos level that are visible at the Win level because Win does its own scan for drives and the partitions on them at boot time. PM 8 is pretty dinosaury. Acronis True Image allows you to do that sort of thing from what it calls a rescue CD which is a bootable Linux CD which may well be able to see the partition fine. He's still running Windows 98 SE with an old PC. It should be fine. ![]() Not necessarily, it does its own scan for drives and so partitions, so what it can see isnt necessarily what DOS sees. |
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"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 |
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"Adam" wrote in message
... 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." This error message occurs when PM8 goes into DOS to execute operations in batch mode. Anyone know what's wrong? Svend, where are you? What partition are you trying to copy? What drive is it on? Is it an IDE drive, or is it a SCSI or USB drive? Where are you copying it to? What happens if you try the copy operation using the Partition Magic Rescue Disks instead of Windows-mode Partition Magic? Do the rescue disks "see" the drives and partitions involved? It's possible since you were running PM from Windows that another application interfered or modified the disk. It's also possible if it is an IDE disk, that you have it jumpered incorrectly. ....glen |
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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 -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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"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 |
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On 2/22/2011 10:21 AM PT, glee typed:
It's possible since you were running PM from Windows that another application interfered or modified the disk. Yeah, I never trusted running other programs. Too risky IMO! Others and I always used bootable DOS version without problems with old PCs and their IDE/PATA HDDs. -- "... Our latest evil plan and create an army of giant ants to take over the galaxy..." --Dark Helmet from Spaceballs: The Animated Series (S1 E3). /\___/\ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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