Partition Magic 8 issues

[VeryFustrated]

Ok I have read through a few posts about partition magic. There was so much info that was so scattered that I am just going to explain my problem and hope for the best in a new thread. =)

I have 6 seperate partitions on 1 disk. I need more room on my C: drive. I would like to use the "Redistribute Free Space" tool. Every time I do it reboots and nothing happens. The only thing different I see is the elusive XMNT2002 error message. It is getting very old. Please help me out!

 

[lb63640]

Go to this link for more details:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...Magic&ver=8.0&src=sg&pcode=pmagic&svy=&csm=no

Here's some of the highlights of the article, but you have to continue to the link and select the situation that best applies to your situation.

Technical Information:
When PartitionMagic needs to make changes to the System partition, it assigns a BootExecute command in the registry (the same type of command as those placed by CHKDSK). After the batch operation has finished, the command is removed. The Xmnt2002.exe file is the target file for operations being performed in Windows NT/2000/XP.

This error occurs when the BootExecute command remains in the registry but the Xmnt2002 file that it references has been eliminated or removed from the System32 folder. This can occur when the System partition's drive letter changes, the partition that Partition Magic on which installed is moved or deleted, or if Partition Magic is uninstalled before it has completed the batch operation and removed the BootExecute command.

 

[wolluf]

When you say 6 partitions, what do you mean? Is it one primary and one extended partition, the extended partition having 5 logical drives? (hard drives can only support 4 'real partitions' - 4 primary or 3 primary and one extended).

Are the partitions same filestore type?

If your C: drive is primary, and all the others are logical in extended partition, I suspect you're always looking at a problem using PM (presuming you want to merge one or more of the logical drives into the C: drive). And of course, you may get it to start, then get stuck and leave the whole drive unusable.

I would use a more long winded method - basically copying stuff off to another drive, wiping this one, repartitioning as required and copying stuff back. Have you a good reason for maintaining 6 partitions? How large is drive/partitions?

 

[VeryFustrated]

lb63640 I have been there already! It didn't work as it said it would. Thank you for your referance. I seem to be inbetween a rock and a hard place here...



wolluf........ It matters not how many partitions I have, nor how big they are. even if I didn't have MY computer set up this way I would still have the same issue of PM8 not working at all...

 

[Lemon13]

how i understand the "Redistribute Free Space" tool, there must be free (that means not allocated to any partition on ur hd) space.
do u have such space?
have u tried "resize partition" on d: e: .... and then the "Redistribute Free Space" tool?

 

[wolluf]

VeryFustrated - the point I was making is that PM can only cope with some situations. The more complicated the partitioning, the more likely it is that it will fail/not cope with trying to repartition - especially if you have logical drives in an extended partition and a primary partition, and what you want to do involves both (I'm making assumptions as you still haven't said what your partitioning actually is, or what you're actually trying to do - apart from increasing C: drive - which led me to believe you're probably wanting to 'steal' some space from the logical drives in the extended partition to add to the primary partition. This is NOT easy to do - which is why I recommended a copy away, wipe, copy back approach)