DOn't Panic - all is lost! All seriousness aside, you are toast! Now to help you. Unless you cannot afford the expense, (ie the money is more valuable than the...
Thanks for this Doc, I'm sure 'TestDisk' will become one of my core utilities along with RPM. So glad I subscribed to this list as a lurker (as I was up until...
Finally managed to get all my OSes set up. Thanks for the help. FYI, here's my partition info: * * * Ranish Partition Manager Version 2.43 (beta) by...
I have a laptop without flopply drive. When i run PART.EXE from hard drive, it says "Copy part.exe and update boot sector on A:". I tried to run from CD also...
Yes! Copy it onto a bootbale floppy (on your friends pc) and then make its bootble CD ROM, Now use this CD to boot PC and use Partman. Rahul ... From:...
... You fail to mention the Operating System and partition type you were in when you tried to run from the HDD. I presume that you have no FAT partitions! ...
... I also note that all subsequent messages don't show the day of the week in the right hand column. Who/what should we try to blame/pin/roast this on? ;-) ...
... It'll run from FAT or FAT32 but not if you're using Win2k or XP! ... From hard drive - Only in DOS or Win9x. Probably WinME. Or as DOC says - from a...
i used partman and now when i boot it says "extended partition is not bootable" and when i try to boot from floppy it says disk read error. win 2000...
FYI PC Utilities mag Issue 40 in the UK includes a free version of Paragon Partition Manager. Has a useful Resize facility. Covers changing FAT16 cluster size...
... John Have you actually tried to resize with this? I ask because I got the same (?) thing free with another UK magazine not long ago (supposed to do...
... Sound like a bad floppy disk. Try a different floppy. If that doesn't work get us the *exact* error msg. ... That should only make a difference if you were...
i have tried a new floppy disk i even tried a new drive and still nothing, it is a NTFS file sys and i cant even get to boot manager [Non-text portions of this...
... I usually handle forum posts off-line within my e-mail client, but this time I wanted to take advantage of the THREAD following feature of the forum. ...
... Doc: also presumes a CD-RW in the laptop which I didn't. ... Doc : and under-appreciated too! ... I believe you, but I have't looked into the USB THUMB...
... If you cannot boot from a KNOWN good *bootable* floppy, you have BIG trouble! (BTW: This could be an indication that your HDD is okay!) Try unplugging your...
... Here's a link to WDC support for drive configurations: http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp#eide At the risk of repeating myself, I feel...
Sorry about not mentioning OS. It is Windows XP and NTFS. I just used Boot CD (created from "Bart's Way to bootable CDs" ) and I partitioned my hard disk using...
... Personally I've started using and even paid for a registered copy of 'The Bat' email client. This powerful program is gaining a reputation as the 'e-mail...
I seem to remember seeing a CD on an (Australian) magazime offering a free version of Partition Magic, that wouldn't work with Windows XP. Maybe XP has a...
... Count yourself fortunate. It's not advisable to use RPM to partition once you've got stuff on your drive. This applies even more so when you have formatted...
Hi Dermot, Yes, I did two tests on a Win95 2GB FAT16 partition with 1.4GB of data and a single bad sector near the end. First downsized to 1.4GB, created an...
... (and they're done dirt cheap! What song is that from?) Mr.DD: when more than one groupie is trying to help you, I'd like to know whose/which idea you're...
A frend of mine took my advice and used partman to partition and format a new 100 GB Western Digital hard drive... Everything is OK except he cannot defragment...
From: "kbsurabhi" <kbsurabhi@...> Sorry about not mentioning OS. It is Windows XP and NTFS. I just used *Boot CD* (created from "Bart's Way to bootable...
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