Partition Magic 8 wont work with SATA Drives?

FatRakoon · 4 Dec 2006 at 08:57

As the title really

Wondering if Im missing something here, but I have been going from IDE to SATA on my PCs, and at first, I thought, oh its just that Motherboard being a swine, but then Im starting to realise, that on every one of my PCs that I try to resize a partition... It keeps failing and says it cant unlockthe partition.

End result now, is that the software no longer does what I want it to.

Seems fine with IDE Drives, but only does this on SATA Drives?

Any ideas?

Hudzy · 4 Dec 2006 at 09:48

Using Partition Magic 8 with SATA drives here. I can't help with the problem but at least I think it's not a SATA vs IDE issue.

Just to clarify, I resized a partition the other night.

FatRakoon · 4 Dec 2006 at 13:14

No, I would have thought that it would not be either, but Im getting the same problems with severla of my PCs

DS3
Neo2
Neo4
LP250UT

all wont resize C: to fit another partition onto the end of that drive, yet are fine when I do this with an IDE Drive ( Not tried that on the DS3 however )

I want to now copy my C: off this drive onto another one... I have used PM8 many times to do this, but now I am no longer able to.

Im only going to do a fresh install anyway, but Im hoping to do it now, as I want the HD its on, as I want to do a bit more RAID tests on another PC, and well... Other reasons.

I just want to keep the installation as intact as possible cos my NFSU2 game that I have been playing the last few days has mine and my kids careers on all with 10 Star cars, so I want to keep those if poss.

Anyway, Im waffling... Enough!

kitfit1 · 4 Dec 2006 at 13:26

Are you doing this from Windows or from the floppy you created?

Greenlizard0 · 4 Dec 2006 at 15:32

I hate a similar problem with the eighth edition to the point I had to uninstall it and abandon ideas of installing Linux

FatRakoon · 4 Dec 2006 at 16:30

kitfit1 said:
Are you doing this from Windows or from the floppy you created?

Windows.

Yeah, I see what you mean... I should use the floppies really

Right, hang on.. I will do that... It should cure it because the drives wont get locked in *** first place will they?

Have to be honest, I never bother with the DOS Method.

greenlizard0 said:
I hate a similar problem with the eighth edition to the point I had to uninstall it and abandon ideas of installing Linux

No, dont... Linux will reize the partitions etc for you just fine.