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Name: hidayat_ullah
Date: July 27, 2005 at 14:33:12 Pacific
OS: Winxp
CPU/Ram: 1.4G/128
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hi,

I have two drives C & D, both of which are NTFS and I have winXP installed. Now I want to make some space for linux in D drive, so I started partition magic 7 to split drive D. but:

Partition magic shows me only C and for the other drive it says Unallocated which is very strange because drive D does exist. However, I ignored this and right clicked on it to create a new partition NTFS on it. It accepts the tasks but when I click the apply button it does not carry out the operations display the following error:

Error #986
Unable to get information from the specified partition.

Does anybody encountered such a problem, or does someone have any idea about how to fix it?

Please help!


Hidayat ullah
Birmingham UK



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Response Number 1
Name: XpUser
Date: July 27, 2005 at 14:51:19 Pacific
Reply:

..so I started partition magic 7..

See kurt's response number 4 in this thread.

i_XpUser


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Response Number 2
Name: Kurt S
Date: July 27, 2005 at 14:59:06 Pacific
Reply:

Also see this article about SUBST and VSUBST drive mapping and make sure your drive isn't compressed.


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