8.0
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- PartitionMagic Basics
- PartitionMagic Main Window
- Rescue Disk Main Window
- Process Overview
- Selecting a Hard Disk and Partition
- Selecting an Operation
- Undoing an Operation
- Viewing Pending Operations
- Applying Changes to Your System
- Supported File Systems
- Changing PartitionMagic Preferences
- Using International Keyboards
- Defragmenting a Hard Drive
- Getting Help
- Managing Partitions
- Integrity Checks
- Browsing Partitions
- Resizing and Moving Partitions
- Creating Partitions
- Deleting Partitions
- Undeleting Partitions
- Changing Partition Labels
- Formatting Partitions
- Copying Partitions
- Checking Partitions for Errors
- Merging Partitions
- Splitting Partitions
- Getting Information About Partitions
- Scanning a Disk for Errors
- Defragmenting Drives
- Completing Advanced Disk Operations
- Converting Partitions
- Procedure for Converting Partitions
- Converting FAT Partitions to FAT32
- Converting FAT Partitions to NTFS
- Converting FAT32 Partitions to FAT
- Converting FAT32 Partitions to NTFS
- Converting FAT/FAT32 Partitions to 4K Aligned
- Converting NTFS Partitions to FAT or FAT32
- Converting Partitions to Logical or Primary
- Using Wizards
- Using PartitionMagic Utilities
- BootMagic
- Getting Started
- Configuring BootMagic
- Setting BootMagic Passwords
- Adding an Operating System to the BootMagic Menu
- Removing an Item from the BootMagic Menu
- Modifying a Menu Item’s Properties
- Setting a Default Operating System
- Booting from a Second Hard Disk
- Setting the Startup Delay
- Disabling BootMagic
- Using the BootMagic Menu
- Using BootMagic to Install Operating Systems
- Troubleshooting
- Using PartitionMagic With Other Programs
- Troubleshooting
- General Troubleshooting
- Freeing Memory to Run PartitionMagic under DOS
- Assigning a CD-ROM Drive Letter
- Using PartitionMagic With a SCSI Hard Disk
- PqRP Partitions
- Merging Partitions with Different NTFS Version Numbers
- Resolving Check Errors
- Resolving Partition Table Errors
- Partition Tables and Viruses
- Partition Will Not Boot After Resizing
- Generating Diagnostic Reports with PartitionInfo
- Error Messages and Solutions
- Miscellaneous Errors (3-38)
- Disk Access Errors (40-56)
- Miscellaneous Errors
- Partition Table Errors (100-199)
- #100 Partition table is bad
- #104 No sectors in partition
- #105 Partition starts on wrong boundary
- #106 Partition doesn’t start with sector one
- #107 Partition begins after end of disk
- #108 Partition doesn’t end at end of cylinder
- #109 Partition ends after end of disk
- #110 Partition table number of sectors is inconsistent
- #111 Logical partition starts outside of Extended
- #112 Logical partition ends outside Extended
- #113 Partitions overlap
- #116 Partition table Begin and Start inconsistent
- #117 Partition’s drive letter cannot be identified
- #120 The logical drive chain is incompatible
- #121 The first sector of the drive cannot be read
- #122 A bad sector was found in the current or new partition area
- #140 Overlapping partitions found. No partitions can be undeleted.
- Check Errors (500-599)
- Batch Errors (600-633)
- User Interaction Errors (950-999)
- #950 Unable to detect any disk drives
- #951 An invalid value was entered
- #952 Value entered is the same as the current value
- #963 Selected operation is currently invalid
- #968 Incorrect Volume Label entered, Deletion not performed
- #969 Incorrect Volume Label entered, Unable to proceed.
- #970 Invalid Bad Sector Check value specified
- #971 The label entered was too long
- #972 Invalid characters in the label
- #973 Volume Label cannot have leading spaces
- #974 Root size specified was not in the valid range
- #975 The cluster size specified was invalid for this partition
- #976 Cannot create the file system specified in the current space
- #977 Partition selected is invalid
- #978 Unable to set to proper partition after last operation. Script halted.
- #986 Unable to get information for the specified partition
- #993 Partition contains open files. Use the operating system check utility.
- NTFS Check Errors (1500-1699)
- #1501 Wrong version of NTFS
- #1503 Bad NTFS cluster size
- #1512 Restart record mismatch
- #1513 Bad attribute position in file record
- #1516 Partition improperly dismounted
- #1527 Bad update sequence number
- #1529 Information mismatch in directory entry
- #1538 Can’t find contiguous space to move
- #1539 File size mismatch
- #1544 External attribute list in external attribute
- #1545 File attributes out of order
- #1546 Attribute neither resident nor nonresident
- #1547 Wrong run limits
- #1548 File table has fewer than 16 entries
- #1549 File table has more than 4 billion entries
- #1604 File’s parent does not contain the file
- #1609 Lost cluster(s)
- #1630 Inconsistent sizes in attribute header
- #1644 Bad system file sequence number
- #1647 Error in root directory index
- #1681 Data is compressed or sparse
- #1687 An object index is present
- FAT Check Errors (2000-2099)
- #2001 FAT copies are not identical
- #2002 There are invalid entries in the FAT
- #2003 File size does not match FAT allocation for file
- #2005 One or more lost clusters are present
- #2012 Formatted FAT file system too big for partition
- #2013 A component of FAT geometry is bad
- #2024 The OS/2 Extended Attribute file is corrupt
- #2027 Too many root entries in the FAT32 partition to convert it to FAT16
- #4002 No valid NetWare volumes signature in volume definition table
- BootMagic Errors (8000-8999)
- Operating System Errors (over 10,000)
- Exit Code 12
- General Troubleshooting
- Service and Support Solutions
- Index
Norton PartitionMagic 147
active, setting 65, 85
applying changes to 19
backing up 48
bootable 38, 65, 85
browsing 28
checking integrity 50
checking NTFS 9
copying 48
creating 34
creating with wizard 80
creating, scenarios 42
data 91
deleting 44, 127
deleting all 17
file systems supported 20
formatting 48, 127
hidden 15
hiding/unhiding 63
information 56
map in main window 14
merging 52
moving 29
moving, scenarios 33
multiple visible primary 63, 106
naming 47
overlapping, fixing 122
PqRP 113
primary, hiding/unhiding 64
resizing 29
resizing limitations 32
resizing, scenarios 33
scanning for errors 58
selecting 17
serial number 58
shredding 44
sizes supported 1
splitting 54
status 15
undeleting 45
using 64K FAT clusters on 22
password protection 10
passwords
changing 11
setting for BootMagic 96
pending changes 19
pending operations, viewing 19
performance, improving by resizing clusters 66
physical disk, selecting 17
physical geometry 58
PQ_DEBUG.TXT file 115
PQBoot 85
command line switches 87
using with multiple visible primary partitions
(Windows NT) 87
PQFLEX partitions 113
PqRP partitions 113
preferences 21
allow 64K FAT clusters for Windows NT 22
set as read-only for PartitionMagic 23
skip bad sector checks 22
system supports FAT32 22
primary partitions
converting to logical 76
hiding/unhiding 64
process overview 16
R
README file 25
read-only, set hard disk as 23
reclaiming wasted space 66
recovering data files 81
redistribute free space wizard 82
reducing the number of partitions 52
remapping drive letters 84
removable media 17
removable media, assigning a drive letter to 111
requirements, system 4
rescue disks
BootMagic 93
contents of 7
creating 5
international keyboards and 23
ran out of space on 9
running from, if hard disk is compressed 129
running PARTINFO from 117
running PartitionMagic from 8
running under Windows 2000 Professional,
Windows XP or Windows Me 8
system requirements 4
resizing clusters 66
resizing operations 29
resizing partitions
limitations 32
partition won’t reboot after resizing 115
scenarios 33
resizing the root directory 64
restoring deleted partitions 45