partition magic won't open on windows xp

[raftman]

I have a dual boot system with windows XP and red hat 9. I want to reformate one of my NTFS partitions and use the space for linux.

Now, I have partition magic installed and actually used partition magic to initially create the linux partions. but after installing red hat and running PM from windows I get this error that prevents it from starting "can't determine partition drive letter".

I've checked the windows disk manager and see that, in fact, the linux partitions don't have drive letters. Anyone know a way around this? Maybe a bootable partition manager? A partition manager usable in linux would be fine....

Thanks!

 

[montag451]

try - bootitng

 

[raftman]

I'll try that. I've found it online at http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/

I'll post if it works.

 

[raftman]

bootit saw all the partitions, I changed it to Linux Native in the bootit GUI (using a boot disk).

Did mke2fs ext3 on the partition in linux, then added it to /etc/fstab.

thanks guys.

BTW, while trying to fix this problem i downloaded the demo version of Paragon Partition Manager. The demo version doesn't let you actually format or change your partitions, but it was able to see all the partitions (unlike partion magic). Just FYI if anyone is having the same problem you can use Paragon instead of partition magic.