partition magic stops working after installing linux

From: John Karuski (gupta.ayush_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: 15 Sep 2004 05:01:07 -0700

I had installed Windows XP on my hard disk. I had 3 partitions using
Partition Magic 8. Then I created 2 more partitions(ext3 and swap). I
installed SuSE Personal 9.1 Linux on them. Since I couldnt get SuSE
Professional, I decided to install Fedora Core2. I did so and
overwrote the SuSE installation. Everything works fine except
Partition Magic refuses to start from Windows XP. It give Error 117
(Drive Letter Not Found).

My guess is that Windows or whoever is supposed to, has not assigned
drive letters to the linux partitions. My friend has the same problem
and coinicidentally, he had also overwrote one installation with
another. When I installed Fedora with Windows XP Home on another PC
without overwriting the distro, PartitionMagic still is working fine.

PartitionMagic site at symantec has no solution for error 117 with
Windows XP, only with windows 95/98 and that is to run it under
MS-DOS.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanx in advance.

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