I only made 1 big partition upon install of WinXP (NTFS). I loaded PMagic 7.0 and set it to make changes and form 3 partitions. I say apply changes and it says that it has to close windows to make changes... WinXP shuts down and the computer POSTs and goes through bootup back to login screen, at no time does it load PMagic. I tried this a couple times no dice. I created rescue disks and used those to bring up PMAgic in dos... it gives me fatal error after I put in the 2nd disk and does not load PMagic in dos.. goes to A: prompt. -- Any ideas why it is doing this and how I can make more partitions without fdisking and losing data? Thanks guys

I used PMagic 7 to format and partition my XP system with no problems.I used fat32 instead of the ntfs file system though.You might want to try doing one operation at a time,rather than setting up PMagic to do all of the changes at once.Try resizing the original partition to the size you want and just let the rest of the disk go as free space.If this works you can go back into the program and try to create the other partitions you wanted.

maybe try the latest partion magic 7 pro for xp

I have the latest 7.0 version, I may try converting to FAT32 and see if that helps. I have already tried doing only a single portion such as resizing and leaving unallocated space but that did not work. After searching MS knowledge base and the rest of net I still do not see any cases exactly like mine, I may have to leave as 1 partition

I had problem when I wanted to resize my two hard disk partitions: start fine but a few moment I saw it: fatal error, numberXXXX. I copy the letters with the error number, then I went to the partiton magic (quest) internet site (support), and I found the error number and how fixed. In my case partition magic no detected the exactly size of partitions, I needed to run scandisk (with norton utilities 2002, you need restart) or fdisk in win XP. I run partition magic 7 and worked fine. don't lost anything. check it.

I run Windows XP Pro on my Acer notebook and have recently used PartitionMagic Pro 7.0 to resize the FAT32 formatted 20GB disk with absolutely no problems. However, looking at the disk info from within PM, i see a disk tree called "Extended" off Drive C. Then my second FAT16 logical partition which is used for Pagefile.sys has a "Unallocated" tree .. can someone please explain (privately if need be) what Extended and Unallocated means ?

unallocated means exactly that.. that part of the hard disk is either not formatted or not selected as part of a partition. extended is what happens when you use more than one partition. the first partition is called primary and that is the partition that the computer looks to boot from. extended is the grouping of all partitions after your very first partition. also logical is the dexsription of every partition inside the extended category, if you have Partition Magic then look in the glossary it explains these terms