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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
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