I tried using Partition Magic from windows on my XP X64 machine and that didn't work at all, gave me a file not found error just before you log into windows. What it was supposed to do was reboot, run the PM utility and then reboot again. I uninstalled the software and that error on every boot is still there. It isn't causing anything bad at all but I would like to get rid of it. You know how?
Boot message left over from broken Partition Magic
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Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
fdisk /mbr ????
Bozo :joker:
Bozo :joker:
ddrueding
Fixture
perhaps check the boot.ini file?
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
What did you have PM do?
fdisk/mbr - does this work on NTFS? I can remember trying this once long ago on NTFS drives and it made it unbootable.
I didn't see anything in the boot.ini really.
I wanted to shorten the partition and create a new partition, did that with the PM boot floppies no problem.
I didn't see anything in the boot.ini really.
I wanted to shorten the partition and create a new partition, did that with the PM boot floppies no problem.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Boot to the recovery console.
Do fixboot and fixmbr.
Do fixboot and fixmbr.
Done, all that did though was blow away the boot loader that Vista put in there (that's what was on the second partition). I don't care about that though, I was about done playing with it.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I was trying to get it to delete and resize a partition, or was it resize and create? I can't remember which now. Anyway this works from windows by you installing partition magic, telling it what to do and then rebooting the computer. On the next boot it does what you wanted (or in this case not) and then reboots again when changes are complete.
I suspect that whatever it was going to run isn't compatible with X64, bombed out and it is still trying to do that every boot.
In my mind this is a similar process to what Spybot or AddAware do when they tell you they found something nasty and you have to reboot to get rid of it. Then before you get into windows it runs its scan and then reboots again. Similar to marking the boot partition dirty and on the next boot it runs a check disk and reboots again?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Try installing and uninstalling the program?
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Did the action actually proceed?
Have you checked your start-up items and see if the offender is there?
No, the action bomed out. The exact error message is xmnt2002 file not found skipping auto check.
I went into msconfig and did a selective startup and unchecked everything and that didn't change it.
I just tried logging some other changes in partition magic to see if those would do anything and it got the same error still. Then did a uninstall and used the uninstall option to remove all files and folders, still no change.
I have a feeling that a upgrade install might do it.
ddrueding
Fixture
That sounds like the winning ticket. Shame there isn't an easier way...
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
Would this work?
Backup just the partition with trueimage or ghost or something.
Then zero wipe the drive, create the partitions, and restore your partition.
Backup just the partition with trueimage or ghost or something.
Then zero wipe the drive, create the partitions, and restore your partition.
I don't think that would have worked, whatever this is was clearly part of windows and its partition. As it started up if it shows up right before the setup wizard on a repair install.
Looks like its a good thing this didn't actually cause anything bad other than an annoying message.
Due to some other driver incompatibilities I am now being forced to go to Win XP 32 bit. Not at all happy about that but deleting the partition and a clean install of windows did get rid of it.
As a final hint I tried to ghost the partition to save data. Ghost said that partition had an incomplete log file, but I don't know if that is related or not. I do know that the resulting backup image was unreadable though.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
This is after the fact but: 1-I never run any version of Partition Magic from the OS.
2-I only do one thing at a time. IE: First delete the partition and complete that task. Then expand a partition to fill the unused space.
It takes a little longer and requires extra steps by you, but the success rate is much higher.
And, by doing Partition Magic work from floppies, 32bit or 64bit doesn't matter.
Bozo :joker:
2-I only do one thing at a time. IE: First delete the partition and complete that task. Then expand a partition to fill the unused space.
It takes a little longer and requires extra steps by you, but the success rate is much higher.
And, by doing Partition Magic work from floppies, 32bit or 64bit doesn't matter.
Bozo :joker:
You're right. I have used the boot floppies for years and occasionally in the OS on another drive, but only once and a while on the OS drive itself.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
You the man, I don't know why it didn't even enter into my mind to check symantec's site. Maybe because I am used to them being useless, duno.