I am receiving an Error 3 Not Enough Memory message when trying to resize my hard drive for a new operating system and the operation fails. Fortunately there is no harm done to my hard drive. I have plenty of RAM. I have followed (almost all, I know, I should try them all) the instructions at Powerquest's website. Has anyone encountered this problem? What was the solution? One of their instructions says to create a DOS boot diskette and try running Partition Magic from the command line. I know how to create the boot diskette, but how do I run the program from the command line (not familiar w/DOS)? If you do run the program from the command line, won't it require Windows, since it is a Windows program?

Yes, make the boot diskette and perform your resize from the bootable version. I believe I have heard a glitch in PM8 with memory over 256megs, but don't quote me. The boot disk version is simple, it is very much like a windows program, although it is running in DOS. You will not be lost. There are drop menus, and your mouse will work. There are no command line prompts to perform.

Hi Brent, hi everyone Two things you could try: 1) See if there is a option within Partition Magic to create a DOS disk. If so once you have booted with the newly created disk, Partition Magic should be launched from the disk. 2) Boot with a DOS/Windows 9x bootdisk, and at the DOS-prompt type in: cd\progra~1[Enter]key or cd\program files[Enter]key dir part*[Enter]key to look for the DOS name of the folder where Partition Magic is installed. Could be something like: [PARTMA~1], so you then type in: cd partma~1[Enter]key Now search for the executable by typing in: dir pqmagic.*[Enter]key, this should turn up pqmagic.exe (or pqmagic.com). Type in: pqmagic[Enter]key this should than bring up Partition Magic. One final remark, I'm not sure if Partition Magic will like/allow you to resize the disk where it's installed on. Hope this helps. Greetz from The Netherlands, The Count

Thank you both for your responses. I was able to finally accomplish the resize with the DOS boot diskette and then I found the DOS folder within the Partition Magic directory and ran the PQMAGIC.exe. It resized the drive just fine. However, I foolishly chose that the new partition become a primary drive (which is what Partition Magic recommends when installing a second operating system like XP). Obviously, this immediately made my original OS be in a hidden partition. I finally got back into WIN 98 through going through the DOS PARTINFO.exe and made the XP partition hidden and the Win98 partition active again. I then converted the new partition to an Extended/Logical partition. However, after doing this, Boot Magic wouldn't put me into WinXP. I would get the XP startup screen and then the computer would just startup all over again. I then ran the XP setup again and it finally gave me the option to install to Drive D (Partition 2). When I did this, everything went smoothly. What's more, XP replaced BootMagic with it's own Dual Boot Options. Everything worked out fine. Thank you all for your input and help.

Hi Brent, loral, hi everyone Glad to you see you got it sorted! And thanks for getting back with us. It's appreciated! "...foolishly chose that the new partition become a primary drive (which is what Partition Magic recommends when installing a second operating system like XP). Obviously, this immediately made my original OS be in a hidden partition." In my opinion it's not so foolish nor obvious. My laptop has two Primary partitions. Created a new Primary partition (D:) at the beginning of the free space, which needs to be located behind (at the end of) the first Primary partition (C:) containing the OS (WinNT 4.0 wks). In a couple of weeks (most likely) I'll be installing a second OS (Win2K Pro.) (onto the second Primary partition (D:)) and may even create a third Primary partition (E:) for a third OS (WinXP Pro.). :-) The only changes, as far as I know for now, that will be made on the C: drive/partition are within boot.ini by the setup of the two OS's. My original OS, WinNT 4.0 on C:, will still be the first and main OS. Although I'll still keep the ability to boot into either of the other two OS's, even without a third party boot manager. :-) Greetz, The Count

I'm sure you're right. I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to partitioning. I'm not sure what happened the first time I tried to create the second partition and was successful in doing so, but unsuccessful in booting into WinXP. Then, all of a sudden I wasn't able to get back to Win98 (scared me, because that's where all my and my wife's data is). As I mentioned, I found that somewhere along the way, Partition Magic or something had hidden my first partition and I assumed at that point that two "primary" partitions would be in conflict with each other. I finally got back to Win98 and changed the second partition to a logical partition. However, when I selected WinXP in my BootMagic menu, the computer would just restart without actually going into XP. Anyway, I won't bore you with the details again, but the current configuration is fine now. I have yet to try BootMagic again to see if it will override WinXP boot menu. So what you are actually telling me though, is that it is possible to have two partitions be considered the "primary" partitions? I don't plan to actually try anything else on this until I get my new computer and my data is transferred. I will then take a shot a trying to create another primary partition to run another OS.