Re: partition magic stops working after installing linux
From: John Thompson (john_at_starfleet.os2.dhs.org)
Date: 09/15/04
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:59:09 GMT
On 2004-09-15, John Karuski <gupta.ayush@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Windows will only assign drive letter to partition type it recognizes;
e.g. FAT, NTFS. This is actually a Good Thing, because if Windows thinks
it should be able to read the linux partitions, it will pitch a fit until
you either 1) reformat the partitions to a type Windows can recognize, or
2) edit the partition table so that Windows doesn't think it should access
them.
> 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.
This isn't really a solution, but have you considered using a different
tool to handle partitioning? GNUPartEd works well with both Windows and
linux filesystems and with QTPartEd as the GUI actually looks and feels a
great deal like Partition Magic.
You might want to try the "System Rescue CD" (http://www.sysresccd.org/)
for a self-contained, bootable CD with these and other useful tools.
-- -John (john@os2.dhs.org)
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