Partition Magic Problem

[Spectre SE]

I have a Dell laptop that came with Win2000 Pro on a 20G HDD.

After reading through posts here, I installed PartitionMagic Pro 6 to add some partitions to the drive, since in the past I have partitioned mostly to help in my file organization, and to simplify disk maintenance. I plan on only using the 1 OS and will not have dual-boots.

When I tried adding the first partition off C:, the laptop rebooted to effect the changes, but it failed to initiate the program with the error message "XMNT2000 program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK".

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong here?

Also being a Win 2000 newbie (go easy on me), other than for security, is there any reason to have NTFS over FAT32? I had planned on just keeping the whole HDD in NTFS.

Thanks.....

 

[Spectre SE]

Also, I checked in the WinNT sub-directory of the PM application folder and do see XMNT2000.exe there, just not sure why it won't work.

 

[Dark]

This is just a shot in the dark and rather stupid since Pm6 would have noticed you. Usually, Pm do the changes in the dos mode, since dos can't see the ntfs partition, it can't find the file thus the error msg. Maybe that would work with fat.

 

[ugh]

<< Also, I checked in the WinNT sub-directory of the PM application folder and do see XMNT2000.exe there, just not sure why it won't work. >>



A long shot, but... PM creates some kind of a batch file to run. Try looking for that file and see whether it points to the correct EXE file. Could be .pqb or something I guess..

 

[Spectre SE]

I checked the batch file, which had no directory address, only what appeared to be cylinder numbers and the tasks to be performed (that I inputted).

I attempted to open XMNT2000.exe and did get an error message &quot;Application cannot be run in WIN32 mode&quot;.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

If you can't get it resolved, call the technical help for Powerquest.
They will give you help and are pretty good at calling back.

I believe you must run it in dos by using the floppy disc it will create.
If you can make the discs, just boot up with them and repartition.
Be careful with moving the Mbr stuff on C: copy all the hidden files and root files from your c:\ root directory before deleting anything.
May help if you can't boot up again, if your o/s is still in place (Winnt).