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Trouble creating a new partition with Partition Magic 8.0
Hi all,
Here's the situation -- I am running a Maxtor DiamondPlus 9 80GB HD and currently have only one partition on the drive. I am trying to resize that partition and create a new 5GB partition so that I can load Windows ME as a second OS. Problem is that when I attempt to make the changes I get an Error 27 -- Cannot Lock Drive. I went ahead and optimized the drive hoping that might cure the problem but it didn't. I guess the question is: is there a jumper or something that I have to activate in order to create multiple partitions on a Maxtor drive? Thanks for your help! Meatball |
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Since you have only one drive with one partition, that would make it the
drive Windows is running on. To accomplish this operation, you'll have to let PM do it on a reboot. Sort of like running "chkdsk /f", you have to reboot and let the work be done on bootup. Also, I don't think you would have gotten this far if you had, but make sure you haven't set this drive as Read Only in PM's options. -- Wayne Morgan "Meaty" wrote in message ... Hi all, Here's the situation -- I am running a Maxtor DiamondPlus 9 80GB HD and currently have only one partition on the drive. I am trying to resize that partition and create a new 5GB partition so that I can load Windows ME as a second OS. Problem is that when I attempt to make the changes I get an Error 27 -- Cannot Lock Drive. I went ahead and optimized the drive hoping that might cure the problem but it didn't. I guess the question is: is there a jumper or something that I have to activate in order to create multiple partitions on a Maxtor drive? Thanks for your help! Meatball |
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Actually, PM did reboot the comp in order to make the changes. It is
during the reboot that the error messages come up. Do you think I might have more success if I were to make use of the PM rescue disks? Maybe booting to a DOS-type format might allow the changes to be made? Just a thought... On Sun, 30 May 2004 21:07:57 GMT, "Wayne Morgan" wrote: Since you have only one drive with one partition, that would make it the drive Windows is running on. To accomplish this operation, you'll have to let PM do it on a reboot. Sort of like running "chkdsk /f", you have to reboot and let the work be done on bootup. Also, I don't think you would have gotten this far if you had, but make sure you haven't set this drive as Read Only in PM's options. |
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On Mon, 31 May 2004 03:49:42 GMT, Meaty wrote:
Actually, PM did reboot the comp in order to make the changes. It is during the reboot that the error messages come up. Do you think I might have more success if I were to make use of the PM rescue disks? Maybe booting to a DOS-type format might allow the changes to be made? Just a thought... Use the rescue disks, though I don't recall what's on a "Rescue Disk", I mean to have a bootable floppy with the DOS version on it. |
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