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hard drive has open files ??????

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Name: mustard
Date: December 19, 2001 at 15:01:03 Pacific
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i am having major problems , i have got partition magic installed and when i check my drive it says it is unable to do this my harddisk has open files and that i should run the operating system check utility.

i have ran checkdisk but didnt come up with any errors

i am trying to un hide another partition but partition magic is not saying that it is hidden although is not accessible through windows (i hid the partition so i know very well that it is hidden. any ideas



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Name: Tim S
Date: December 19, 2001 at 20:36:31 Pacific
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You probably need Partition Magic 7.0 for XP.


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Name: booger
Date: December 20, 2001 at 00:37:49 Pacific
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Just checking... You are running the Partition Magic prog from a boot disk in DOS mode arent you? Because if it runs under Windows files will be open for sure


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