Hi,

thanks a lot for this helpful program.

But I do not find a solution for 1 problem:

I do have 2 hard disks with different operating systems; thanks to
partition manager there is no problem to switch between 2 bootable
partitions on disk 1 and 2 bootable partitions on disk 2. I am using the
basic partition manager.

My problem:

I want to reload the different configurations from batch files, i.e.
part-de -l xxxx1.mbr to xxxx4.mbr for the 4 different configurations. This
works fine for the partitions on HD1, but HD2 is not affected by this
command.

Is there a way to save and reload the Partition table from / to a specific
HD?


Thanks

Sepp Merk

The following partman-discussion poll is now closed.  Here are the
final results:


POLL QUESTION: What do you think should be on my "TO
DO" list at HIGH priority for the
upcoming partman 2.38?
(poll will be closed 06/1st/2000
approx.)

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- Scan disk for the lost partitions, 7 votes, 10.94%
- Resize FAT partitions, 9 votes, 14.06%
- Chkdsk and Defragment FAT partitions, 3 votes, 4.69%
- Port Partition Manager to Linux, 2 votes, 3.12%
- Copy, image, restore, migrate partitions, 10 votes, 15.62%
- Support more than 4 primary partitions, 14 votes, 21.88%
- Save and restore MBR, 12 votes, 18.75%
- Boot from CD-ROM, 3 votes, 4.69%
- Write extensive Primer, Help and FAQ, 4 votes, 6.25%



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Hi,

I have a 13GB hard drive. Right now,I have win98 on it. I want to
make 3 patitions of sizes 4.5GB, 4.5GB and 4GB and load win98 SE,
winNT 4.0 and linux respectively on them. Could anyone give me any
suggestions on how to do it.

Also, is there any free software which will do this without erasing
the data present on my hard drive. If not,which is the most
economical software I can buy to solve my problem.

Thanks,

Rajarao

We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

poll end: TO-DO

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poll for "TO-DO-list priority" will close on june, 1st!

> I have Win2000 installed on one partition (F: NTFS) and I am trying to
> install Win98 SE on a separate partition (C: FAT16 (active)). I used a
> Win98 boot disk to boot and ran setup from the Win98 CD and got the
> following error message:
>
> Message SU0013
> To set up Windows 98, your startup drive must be
> an MS-DOS boot partition. If your startup drive is
> formatted as HPFS or NTFS, you must create an MS-DOS
> boot partition before running Setup. For more
> information about creating an MS-DOS boot partition,
> see your computer documentation.
>
> I notice the Partition Manager FAQ mentions the above error.
> What exactly does the error mean and how can I use Partition Manager to
> install Win98?
>
You need a "Standard IPL". Set it in Part, and it should work.

Hi, Adam:

I had the same problem several month ago. It has nothing to do with PartMan.
It is the trick of win98 setup. Message suxxx means setup error, in this
case, it concerns so called "Dos protected mode" problem if I remember
correctly.
The solution is simple, just use a Dos bootup floopy, Dos 6.22, or Dos 7.0
from Win95 startup disk with cdrom support, but not Win98!  In PartMan
bootmenu, hilight your win98 partition, press A, change directory to C:
everything will be OK.

Good luck

Fang

> > I have Win2000 installed on one partition (F: NTFS) and I am trying to
> > install Win98 SE on a separate partition (C: FAT16 (active)). I used a
> > Win98 boot disk to boot and ran setup from the Win98 CD and got the
> > following error message:
> >
> > Message SU0013
> > To set up Windows 98, your startup drive must be
> > an MS-DOS boot partition. If your startup drive is
> > formatted as HPFS or NTFS, you must create an MS-DOS
> > boot partition before running Setup. For more
> > information about creating an MS-DOS boot partition,
> > see your computer documentation.
> >
> > I notice the Partition Manager FAQ mentions the above error.
> > What exactly does the error mean and how can I use Partition Manager to
> > install Win98?
> >
> > With thanks,
> > Adam Davidson
> >
> >
> >
> >
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You could try this:
1) format the win98 partition as FAT with partition manager before
2) delete the NTFS partition from MBR before installing win98. Restore it
afterwards in the same cylinders.

-> I suggest you to read my page here to see if it can be of any help:
http://digilander.iol.it/trombettworks/multi-boot.htm

Good luck
Gabriele

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Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: [partman-discussion] Can Partition Manager help me?


> I have Win2000 installed on one partition (F: NTFS) and I am trying to
> install Win98 SE on a separate partition (C: FAT16 (active)). I used a
> Win98 boot disk to boot and ran setup from the Win98 CD and got the
> following error message:
>
> Message SU0013
> To set up Windows 98, your startup drive must be
> an MS-DOS boot partition. If your startup drive is
> formatted as HPFS or NTFS, you must create an MS-DOS
> boot partition before running Setup. For more
> information about creating an MS-DOS boot partition,
> see your computer documentation.
>
> I notice the Partition Manager FAQ mentions the above error.
> What exactly does the error mean and how can I use Partition Manager to
> install Win98?
>
> With thanks,
> Adam Davidson
>
>
>
>
>
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I have Win2000 installed on one partition (F: NTFS) and I am trying to
install Win98 SE on a separate partition (C: FAT16 (active)). I used a
Win98 boot disk to boot and ran setup from the Win98 CD and got the
following error message:

Message SU0013
To set up Windows 98, your startup drive must be
an MS-DOS boot partition. If your startup drive is
formatted as HPFS or NTFS, you must create an MS-DOS
boot partition before running Setup. For more
information about creating an MS-DOS boot partition,
see your computer documentation.

I notice the Partition Manager FAQ mentions the above error.
What exactly does the error mean and how can I use Partition Manager to
install Win98?

With thanks,
Adam Davidson

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wrote:
> I will vote, however It's a good idea to discuss a bit here too.
>
> >[...]

Hi Gabriele,

I totally agree with your annotations &  that was a nice sum up, too.
Thanks,
Cris

partman-discussion@egroups.com wrote:
>
> What do you think should be on my "TO
> DO" list for the upcoming PARTMAN 2.38?

Does recent Partman preserve NT Disk Signature in MBR? It would be
convenient to have Partman able to modify this data.

Curious what NT users think.

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I will vote, however It's a good idea to discuss a bit here too.

>[...]
> What do you think should be on my "TO
> DO" list for the upcoming PARTMAN 2.38?
>
>   o Write extensive Primer, Help and FAQ

The current one should be enough.
Some more info can be gathered reading my usual page
http://digilander.iol.it/trombettworks/multi-boot.htm

>   o Scan disk for the lost partitions

Interesting, however if you have an idea of where it was before you can find
it yourself by scanning the cyilinders yourself by pressing "+" on the
numeric pad repeatedly. When you pass from the correct beginning of the
partition the writing will become green.
Already used on the computer of a friend of mine who had lost all the MBR.
It works.

>   o Resize FAT partitions

NO! Please use "The Partition Resizer" for this. It's freeware & excellent.
Resizes fat 12, 16, 32 normal and LBA >8Gb (up to 2TB) and it's extremely
safe: able to continue even it electricity turns off.
Find it here:
http://members.xoom.com/Zeleps/
let's try not wasting time doing something which has been done already.

>   o Chkdsk and Defragment FAT partitions

Well... you can use any Windows or third party scandisk, some of them are
for DOS.
I don't suggest you to lose time here.

>   o Port Partition Manager to Linux

Well... What does this mean? PM is quite OS-Independent.
If you mean that you want to support the Linux Filesystems like you are now
supporting FAT, this could be interesting.

>   o Copy, image, restore, migrate partitions
>   o support more than 4 primary partitions

YES! Yes please. But (as I'm continuously saying) please allow complete boot
configurations and not only previous, next, last, and last3!

>   o save and restore MBR
>   o boot from CD-ROM
[no comment]

Happy vote, people
Gabriele Trombetti

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eGroups Member wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I came across following problem: the PC is forced to boot from a
> Network card ["Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v3.10
> by Lanworks/3Com] and for some reason  the ranish Boot Manager does
> not load.

If I understand well, booting across LAN means: do not load the local
MBR, boot sector and os, but instead boot an os off the boot server,
somewhere around on LAN.

Regards
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Hi all,

I came across following problem: the PC is forced to boot from a
Network card ["Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v3.10
by Lanworks/3Com] and for some reason  the ranish Boot Manager does
not load.
Hence, all primary partitions (all FAT) stay visible.
If I disconnect from the Network (simply by pulling the cable or
setting up a wrong protocol) the ranish Boot Manager
comes up and all works fine.
Is there anything I can do to make it work better than manually
hiding/unhiding partitions?
Thanks - any suggestions appreciated.
Cris

I use EZCOPY.exe - simple.
Or HDCP 4 a mirror image. Both shareware.

----- Original Message -----
From: Philipp Gravenhorst <gravenhorst@...>
To: <partman-discussion@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [partman-discussion] HDD imaging / copying (continue
@XOSL-discussio)


> > question:
> > can anyone recommend a HDD imaging/copying tool which is
compatible
> > with XOSL/partman?

> I thought, the new version of Part can copy partitions, or is that
> just another dummy feature?

it isnīt implemented yet.

> Had you the bootmanager installed, perhaps even the "advanced" one,
> while using hdcopy? You shoudnīt complicate things...

not "ranish advanced BOOTmanager", but XOSL.
well, i donīt WANT to complicate things... i just want to
install/configure that kind of system i need ;)
thereīs no way bypassing making it complicated, i think.
but this isnīt MY fault ;) ....

iīm in need of a mixed multi-boot system. so iīll have to use
some
flexible partitioning toll (ranish PARTITION manager) and some
easy-to-use, powerfull BOOTmanager (XOSL).
PLUS a powerfull HDD-imaging tool, compatible with the above.

PLEASE NOTE: i donīt like CROSSPOSTING.
but i started another thread concerning this topic at
XOSL-discussions
list (as XOSL contains ranish partman).

PLEASE STOP CONTINUING THIS THREAD IN HERE:
CONTINUE IT AT XOSL-DISCUSSIONS-LIST:

http://www.egroups.com/message/xosl/337?&start=324
(posting #337,  Thu May 4, 2000)

the thread mentioned, concerns "ranish partition manager" and "XOSL"
principles in general(!) plus HDD imaging concerns.

thanksīn greetz

  philipp



PS: i recommend the following:

- for partitioning use: "ranish PARTITION manager"
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

- as BOOTmanager use: "XOSL"
http://www.xosl.og/
(it includes "ranish PARTman" for partitioning purposes!)
XOSL has a very comfortable user interface, in opposite to "ranish
advanced BOOTmanager".



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> > question:
> > can anyone recommend a HDD imaging/copying tool which is
compatible
> > with XOSL/partman?

> I thought, the new version of Part can copy partitions, or is that
> just another dummy feature?

it isnīt implemented yet.

> Had you the bootmanager installed, perhaps even the "advanced" one,
> while using hdcopy? You shoudnīt complicate things...

not "ranish advanced BOOTmanager", but XOSL.
well, i donīt WANT to complicate things... i just want to
install/configure that kind of system i need ;)
thereīs no way bypassing making it complicated, i think.
but this isnīt MY fault ;) ....

iīm in need of a mixed multi-boot system. so iīll have to use
some
flexible partitioning toll (ranish PARTITION manager) and some
easy-to-use, powerfull BOOTmanager (XOSL).
PLUS a powerfull HDD-imaging tool, compatible with the above.

PLEASE NOTE: i donīt like CROSSPOSTING.
but i started another thread concerning this topic at
XOSL-discussions
list (as XOSL contains ranish partman).

PLEASE STOP CONTINUING THIS THREAD IN HERE:
CONTINUE IT AT XOSL-DISCUSSIONS-LIST:

http://www.egroups.com/message/xosl/337?&start=324
(posting #337,  Thu May 4, 2000)

the thread mentioned, concerns "ranish partition manager" and "XOSL"
principles in general(!) plus HDD imaging concerns.

thanksīn greetz

  philipp



PS: i recommend the following:

- for partitioning use: "ranish PARTITION manager"
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

- as BOOTmanager use: "XOSL"
http://www.xosl.og/
(it includes "ranish PARTman" for partitioning purposes!)
XOSL has a very comfortable user interface, in opposite to "ranish
advanced BOOTmanager".

> hi folks,
>
> i had a terrible weekend using XOSL/partman plus hdcopy
> (www.hdcopy.de).
>
> as ranish partman doesn't support HDD imaging/copying, yet, i tried
> to
>  use hdcopy, instead.
>
> i used to rely on hdcopy, as this is a great tool.
>
> but it doesn't seem to be compatible with XOSL/partman, at all.
> when trying to restore or copy a HDD-image file it messed up all
the
> partition tabel entries! hours of work to restore everything.
>
> question:
> can anyone recommend a HDD imaging/copying tool which is compatible
> with XOSL/partman?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
>  philipp
>
I thought, the new version of Part can copy partitions, or is that
just another dummy feature?
Had you the bootmanager installed, perhaps even the "advanced" one,
while using hdcopy? You shoudnīt complicate things...

>
> My computer is just over 5 years old now. It is a pentium 90 that
> originally had a 512MB hard drive. When the drive started to fail I
> replaced it with an 8.4GB Maxtor disk. I used the software supplied
> by Maxtor to partition the drive into 1 primary and 4 Logical drives.
>

I'm unexperienced but will hazarad a guess that you created the
problem
by using the Maxtor software to set up the drive. It creates a
"work around" for your system not being able to "see" a large
drive
but creates it's own issues.

I hope someone can help my with my problem which follows.

My computer is just over 5 years old now. It is a pentium 90 that
originally had a 512MB hard drive. When the drive started to fail I
replaced it with an 8.4GB Maxtor disk. I used the software supplied
by Maxtor to partition the drive into 1 primary and 4 Logical drives.

I purchased a version of Linux called Mandrake. A crippled version of
partition magic was supplied that could not repartition my disk. I
read somewhere in the Mandrake manuals that I should delete a couple
of the extra partitions and Partition Magic would see the unused part
of the disk and partition it into what is needed for Linux.

I found the Partition Magic web site, downloaded a demo version, and
used it to delete the last two partitions, leaving approximately 1/2
of my hard disk unused. It will not repartition the disk until I pay
for the full version. I really do not want to pay $40.00 for a tool I
will use only once to get a $30.00 program to work.

Once again I tried the partition tool supplied with Mandrake. It
still did not work. It did not detect the empty part of the disk,
which is almost half of my 8.4 GB disk.

I found the Ranish Partition Manager. It shows all my present
partitions in the red. It gives the same error message: Partition
addresses are out of range.

Ranish also says: Don't use this program unless you are experienced.

Well, I'm not experienced. Any suggestions what to do?

Thank you for your help!

Try Ghost. www.ghost.com now owned by symantec

-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Gravenhorst [mailto:gravenhorst@...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:02 PM
To: partman-discussion@egroups.com
Subject: [partman-discussion] HDD imaging / copying


hi folks,

i had a terrible weekend using XOSL/partman plus hdcopy
(www.hdcopy.de).

as ranish partman doesn't support HDD imaging/copying, yet, i tried
to
  use hdcopy, instead.

i used to rely on hdcopy, as this is a great tool.

but it doesn't seem to be compatible with XOSL/partman, at all.
when trying to restore or copy a HDD-image file it messed up all the
partition tabel entries! hours of work to restore everything.

question:
can anyone recommend a HDD imaging/copying tool which is compatible
with XOSL/partman?

thanks in advance,

  philipp





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hi folks,

i had a terrible weekend using XOSL/partman plus hdcopy
(www.hdcopy.de).

as ranish partman doesn't support HDD imaging/copying, yet, i tried
to
  use hdcopy, instead.

i used to rely on hdcopy, as this is a great tool.

but it doesn't seem to be compatible with XOSL/partman, at all.
when trying to restore or copy a HDD-image file it messed up all the
partition tabel entries! hours of work to restore everything.

question:
can anyone recommend a HDD imaging/copying tool which is compatible
with XOSL/partman?

thanks in advance,

  philipp

> >
> >This is a bit confusing to me.  Perhaps the boot manager menu could
> >allow, for each OS, the explicit setting of which partitions are
> >visible and which are hidden (in the form of a table).
> >What do you think?
>
> I fully agree with you.
> I hope Mikhail or any of the others who help him can add/change this
> feature in a future release, if this is not too much complicated ;-)
>
Hi all!

Iīve tried several bootmanagers, and they all have problems with
hiding partitions. Some of them hide all non-active primary
partitions, what doesnīt get me further, because I donīt like
extended
partitions.

Masterbooter is back on the web with version 2.9, which can handle
>8GB. I just saw I today, and Iīll give it a try (after backing up
everything).

Don't use Partition Manager for this purpose but the great
"The Partition Resizer":
http://members.xoom.com/Zeleps/
(freeware!)

See this and other hints at my page:
trombettworks.come.to/multi-boot.htm

Good luck
Gabriele Trombetti

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To: <partman-discussion@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 6:37 AM
Subject: [partman-discussion] how can I resize a 10GB FAT partition


> Hello,
>
> First I'd like to thank you for this great piece of
> software, keep up the good work.
>
> Do you know a way to resize a 10GB FAT partition?
> I've read PM supports disks larger than 8.4GB,
> and that it can shrink a FAT partition. Is it
> posible in this case? What do you recomend me?
>
> BTW how do I resize a FAT partition?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Alejo
>
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Hello,

First I'd like to thank you for this great piece of
software, keep up the good work.

Do you know a way to resize a 10GB FAT partition?
I've read PM supports disks larger than 8.4GB,
and that it can shrink a FAT partition. Is it
posible in this case? What do you recomend me?

BTW how do I resize a FAT partition?

Thanks in advance!


Alejo

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> Cheers,
> Stephen

I see this problem has been fixed!
Excellent!

Stephen.

At 29/03/00 7.09.00, you wrote:
>From: sglepage@...
>
>Dear Mikhail,
>
..snip...
>
>This is a bit confusing to me.  Perhaps the boot manager menu could
>allow, for each OS, the explicit setting of which partitions are
>visible and which are hidden (in the form of a table).
>What do you think?

I fully agree with you.
I hope Mikhail or any of the others who help him can add/change this
feature in a future release, if this is not too much complicated ;-)

Thank anyway Mikhail, your is the best tool around !!!

                                                         Paolo Conte
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                                                         Milano (Italy)

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Dear Mikhail,

Firstly, I want to thank you for your program and extensive help
pages.  It has helped me to add a new HD to my system and get two
operating systems going on it, with a couple of extended partitions
also.

My questions are about the advanced boot manager...
Firstly, regarding this setup screen that you show in your help file:

"Then Advanced Boot Manager Menu could look like this:

       #  Dev  Partitions  Name                    Keys

       1   C   2/*  Last   Windows 95                N
       2   C   2/*  Last   Windows 95 / Prompt       Y  <-  "F8 6
Enter"
       3   C   3/2  Last   Windows NT                N
       4   C   4/3  Next   Linux                     N
       5   C   4/3  Last3  Linux (sees extended)     N
       6   D   6/*  ----   Old MS-DOS (sees ext)     N
       7   D   0    ----   Old MS-DOS (sees nothing) N"

How do I get to it?  Is it enabled in part version 2.38 beta 1.9?
Alt-O doesn't seem to do anything...
I can't use 2.37 Boot Manager as my disk one is 13G, and it tells
me to fix errors before I can configure anything...

I'm confused about how the automatic hiding and unhiding of
partitions is configured in the advanced boot manager.

For example, I have:
disk 1: (Pri2) FAT16 WinNT
         (Pri1) FAT32 Win98SE
         (Ext1) FAT16
         (Ext2) FAT32
disk 2: (Pri1) FAT32 Win98
         (Ext1) Linux ext2fs
         (Ext2) Linus swap

I have been hiding and unhiding various partitions manually
every time I boot to a different OS.

Are the basic rules for hiding partitions, such as:
-FAT32 partitions should be hidden from WinNT4
-Unhiding just one primary partition per HD when using Win95/98
-All primary partitions on disk 1 must be hidden from Win95/98
  on disk 2.
implemented simply by the last, next, last3 settings?

This is a bit confusing to me.  Perhaps the boot manager menu could
allow, for each OS, the explicit setting of which partitions are
visible and which are hidden (in the form of a table).
What do you think?

Cheers,
Stephen Le Page
Perth, Australia

Hello,

I have uploaded an updated version of Partition Manager v 2.38 beta.
You can download it at
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/partbeta.zip
Don't get too much excited this is only fix for bug in the A20 routines
that was causing part.exe to crash on some newer "legacy free" systems
that didn't support A20 handling via keyboard controller.
Also, there are some minor improvements to the interface behaviour and
some error messages was changed.

However, it looks like, with the help and energy of several very bright
young people, who has contacted me in a last few weeks we, are going to
start a team development effort to finish (and continue to improve)
partition manager. If somebody is interested to join the group, please,
e-mail me and I will put you on the developers mailing list.

In addition to that, there will be now two mailing lists:
one for announcements only and one for questions and answers.

Please, unsubscribe from this (listbot's) mailing list and subscribe
to one (or both) of them:

http://www.onelist.com/group/partman-announcements
http://www.onelist.com/group/partman-discussion

If anyone is willing to become a co-moderator for the discussion
mailing list (to help other people with OS installations) this is
more than welcome.

With best regards,
Mikhail Ranish