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PowerQuest(R) PartitionMagic(R)
Version 7.01
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------
1. Back up Your System!
2. General Usage Notes
3. Known Issues - All Systems
4. Known Issues - Windows NT/2000/XP only)
5. Known Issues - Windows 9x only
6. Known Issues - PartitionMagic Pro only
7. Uninstalling Windows Me
8. Tutorial Movies
9. PowerQuest's Storage Manager Newsletter
1. BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM!
-----------------------
Remember to back up your hard drives before using PartitionMagic.
While PartitionMagic has been thoroughly tested, power failures,
operating system bugs, and hardware design bugs can put your data
at risk. BEFORE USING ANY UTILITY THAT MAKES SUCH EXTENSIVE CHANGES
TO YOUR HARD DISK, YOU SHOULD BACK UP YOUR DATA.
To back up your system, we recommend using PowerQuest Drive
Image(R). Drive Image is a disk imaging tool that lets you create
an image of your entire system that can easily be restored.
Having a backup lets you run PartitionMagic with the security
of knowing that you can get your system back up and running quickly
if you run into problems.
For further information about preparing to run PartitionMagic, see
the PartitionMagic online help. Click the Contents tab. Double-click
the "Getting Started" book, then click "Before you run PartitionMagic."
2. GENERAL USAGE NOTES
----------------------
- PartitionMagic is supported under Windows XP. If you install
PartitionMagic under Windows 9x or Windows Me and then
upgrade your operating system to Windows XP, you will need to
uninstall and reinstall PartitionMagic. PartitionMagic uses a
different executable than under Windows XP than it does under
Windows 9x or Windows Me.
- If you run PartitionMagic from DOS: Turn off third-party disk
caches. Deactivate or unload any TSR programs that access or
modify the partitions being changed.
- Do not run PartitionMagic from a compressed drive.
- PartitionMagic is not supported with Windows NT Server or
Windows 2000 Servers.
- Be aware that there is no undo (after clicking Apply) if you merge
two FAT or FAT32 partitions. You must be particularly careful not to
merge two primary partitions that include operating systems, as your
computer will not be bootable if you do.
- PartitionMagic is available in English, French, German, Italian,
Korean, Spanish, traditional Chinese, and Japanese. A non-Asian
language version of PartitionMagic should never be used on an
Asian language version of Windows NT/2000/XP, as this
may cause corruption of filenames and partition/volume set
labels.
- Progress bars are an estimation only and may pause for several
minutes, even though PartitionMagic is still working correctly. If
you think your computer has locked up, please be patient and
PartitionMagic will finish the operation.
- You should run Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) reader at least once before you
attempt to open the PartitionMagic PDF documentation in the English\
Docs folder on the PartitionMagic CD. If you open PDF manuals on the
CD the first time you run Acrobat, Acrobat will display its splash
screen, display a license agreement, then disappear. If you make
a second attempt to display the PDF documentation, you will not
encounter any problems. PowerQuest recommends Adobe Acrobat
version 4.0 or later for best viewing quality. You can download
the Acrobat reader for free at www.adobe.com.
3. KNOWN ISSUES - ALL SYSTEMS
-----------------------------
A. Running other applications with PartitionMagic
-------------------------------------------------
You should not run PartitionMagic while any other applications
are running. Close any running applications before starting
PartitionMagic.
B. Bad Sector Checking is ON by default
---------------------------------------
Be aware that PartitionMagic ships with bad sector checking
turned ON by default. This ensures that data is not moved or
copied to bad disk sectors. However, this causes the Create,
Move, and Resize operations to slow down considerably. Modern
hard disks are designed to avoid bad sectors automatically.
If you feel confident that bad sectors are not a problem on
your system and you want to improve the performance of
PartitionMagic, turn off Bad Sector Checking (by checking the
appropriate boxes in the "Skip bad sector checks" list box
in Preferences). Another way to verify that there are no bad
sectors on your disk is to run the Windows 95/98/Me ScanDisk
utility and do a surface scan before launching PartitionMagic.
C. UNC Paths Do Not Work for Installation
-----------------------------------------
If you install PartitionMagic from a network directory, you must
have a drive letter mapped to the directory. UNC (Universal
Naming Convention) paths will not work for installation. If you
do not have a drive letter mapped to the directory, you will
receive error #0 or error #1 and installation will fail.
D. Error 2009 Encountered When Merging FAT Partitions
-----------------------------------------------------
On some merge operations, you may encounter error #2009. To
resolve the problem, create a temporary file (such as junk.txt)
in the root directory of the target partition. Then restart the
merge operation.
E. Mount Points
----------------
Under Windows 2000, if you perform operations on partitions that
include mount points, you must restore the mount points after
the operations are complete.
F. USB Drives
-------------
USB drives are not accessible for boot-mode operations. If
you perform operations on a USB drive, there cannot be any
open files on the drive before you apply the changes.
G. Availability of USB Drives
-----------------------------
If a USB drive is set as "removable," then PartitionMagic will not
recognize the drive. However, if you set the USB drive as "fixed,"
then PartitionMagic will be able to recognize the drive and let
you apply operations to it and have PartInfo display the drive's
information.
4. KNOWN ISSUES - WINDOWS NT/2000/XP ONLY
-----------------------------------------
A. Backing up your BOOT.INI file in Windows NT
----------------------------------------------
PartitionMagic for Windows NT needs to temporarily replace your
BOOT.INI file after performing the disk manipulation operations.
It restores the file once it has finished performing the
operations and rebooting. If a failure occurs during the NT
reboot phase, your BOOT.INI file may not be restored properly.
It is a good idea to back up your BOOT.INI file before running
PartitionMagic for Windows NT.
B. Volume sets and stripe sets on Windows NT
--------------------------------------------
PartitionMagic does not support volume sets, stripe sets, stripe
sets with parity, or partitions located on disk mirror/duplex
sets configured using Windows NT Disk Administrator. Under
Windows 2000/XP, PartitionMagic supports standard partitions
located on basic disk sets only.
C. Mixed IDE/SCSI drive configurations under Windows NT
-------------------------------------------------------
In a configuration with mixed IDE and SCSI hard drives, Windows NT
does not always see the boot drive as the first physical hard
drive. PartitionMagic displays drives in the order Windows NT
reports them. As a result, you may see your boot device as
Drive 1, 2, and so forth. This does not cause problems for
PartitionMagic except when setting a new active partition.
Also, PartitionMagic may incorrectly report that there is no
active partition on your system. To change your active
partition, be sure that you identify which drive is the boot
drive.
D. Color palette issues installing Windows NT version
-----------------------------------------------------
If you run the Windows NT version of PartitionMagic immediately
after installation, occasionally you may see color palette
problems. We recommend rebooting Windows NT before running
PartitionMagic for the first time.
E. PartitionMagic produces new-style uppercase table
----------------------------------------------------
The Windows 95/98/Me and MS-DOS versions of PartitionMagic
format NTFS file systems with the uppercase table used by NT 4.0
after Service Pack 4. When Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack
4 is started after an NTFS file system is created by
PartitionMagic, it detects the new-style uppercase table and
changes it to the old version. You may see a message dialog
telling you that the conversion is occurring, but you do not
need to take any action.
F. Windows NT/2000/XP Boot Partition Drive Letter
-------------------------------------------------
You should not change the drive letter originally assigned to
the Windows NT/2000/XP boot partition (the partition where
Windows is installed). Changing the drive letter to anything
but its original designation will cause severe boot problems
and may cause your computer to be unbootable.
G. Error 183: Init Failed
-------------------------
If you attempt to run PartitionMagic on a Windows 2000/XP
Professional machine where the boot partition (the partition
where Windows 2000/XP Professional is installed) is on a
dynamic disk, you will receive the following error message:
"Init failed: Error 183. Unable to identify the Windows
partition." To solve this problem, Windows 2000/XP must be
installed on a basic disk.
H. Error 184
------------
If you encounter error 184 when initializing PartitionMagic,
run Disk Administrator (Windows NT) or Disk Management
(Windows 2000/XP), then start PartitionMagic again.
5. KNOWN ISSUES - WINDOWS 9x ONLY
---------------------------------
A. Upgrading from Windows 9x
----------------------------
If you install PartitionMagic under Windows 9x, then you upgrade
your operating system to Windows Me or Windows XP and run
PartitionMagic, you may see an error. The error occurs when you
perform any operation that requires PartitionMagic to go into
boot mode. To correct the problem, reinstall PartitionMagic from
the CD. After you have reinstalled PartitionMagic, you will not
encounter the error again.
B. Dual Boot
------------
On a computer with a dual boot, if you have more than 20
partitions, you may not be able to launch PartitionMagic under
a Windows 9x boot.
6. KNOWN ISSUES - PARTITIONMAGIC PRO ONLY
-----------------------------------------
A. Across the Wire
------------------
If you disconnect from the network or lose power while you
are performing operations across the wire to a remote
machine, PartitionMagic will not recover gracefully. The
affected hard disk on the remote machine will be marked as
bad. To correct the error: 1) Run PartitionMagic with the
/IPE switch. Change to the %systemdrive%\Program Files\
PowerQuest\PartitionMagic 7.0 folder, and start PartitionMagic
by typing PMAGIC9X /IPE or PMAGICNT /IPE. 2) Connect to the
remote machine using Remote Agent. 3) Delete the partition
that was only partially copied. 4) Close PartitionMagic.
You should NOT run PartitionMagic with the /IPE switch on a
regular basis, since it causes PartitionMagic to ignore
partition errors on all drives. If you manipulate drives
with errors, you could lose data. However, if you use the
/IPE switch to resolve the problem noted above, it will not
cause data loss.
B. Using Remote Agent with in-use partitions
--------------------------------------------
If you attempt to move or copy an in-use partition from the
local machine to a remote machine, you will receive the
following error message: "Operations on remote partitions
cannot be applied in conjunction with operations that require
the machine to reboot." Typically, this error occurs if the
source partition is that where your operating system is
installed or if the partition has open data files.
If the source partition is the operating system partition, you
can work around this problem by first copying this partition to
unallocated space on a drive attached to the local machine,
rebooting the machine, then using the copied partition as the
source partition for Remote Agent operations.
If the source partition has open data files, you can work around
the problem by ensuring that any programs and services that
require use of the source partition are closed and stopped.
Remember that Remote Agent was not designed to be a deployment
tool, but rather a way to copy partitions between machines.
C. Error Creating Remote Agent Boot Disks
-----------------------------------------
On a Windows 98 or Windows Me system, you may encounter the
following error when creating Remote Agent boot disk:
The file below is required but was not found in the indicated
directory.
C:\Windows\command\ebd\command.com
To resolve the problem, create the directory
C:\Windows\command\ebd. Then copy IO.SYS from C:\ and COMMAND.COM
and HIMEM.SYS from C:\Windows into C:\Windows\command\ebd. Then
create the Remote Agent boot disk.
D. Remote Agent and Multiple NICs
---------------------------------
Remote Agent does not run on machines with more than one
network adapter.
E. Set as Read-Only for PartitionMagic
--------------------------------------
If you set a partition as read-only for PartitionMagic, that
partition is still modifiable from a script. The read-only
status only applies to the GUI version of PartitionMagic.
F. WinSock2 (Windows 95 only)
-----------------------------
If your computer does not include Winsock2, the Connect Remote
Agent feature in PartitionMagic Pro will not run. You may
see an error message that says a required DLL file, WS2_32.DLL,
was not found, or you may see a more general error message
stating that the feature cannot launch.
Go to the following URL to automatically install and configure
Winsock2 on your machine:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/
wuadmintools/s_wunetworkingtools/w95sockets2/default.asp
The following URL describes how to identify whether Winsock2 is
installed on your machine:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q177/7/19.asp
7. UNINSTALLING WINDOWS ME
--------------------------
If you use PartitionMagic (or FDISK or any other partitioning
software), you should be aware of the following Microsoft warning.
IMPORTANT: You should not attempt to uninstall Windows Me if the
partition information for your hard disk or disks has changed since
you last installed Windows Me successfully. Windows Me creates a
backup copy of your partition information in the Suhdlog.dat file
at the end of a successful installation, and Uninstal.exe restores
the partition information listed in the Suhdlog.dat file to your
hard disk during the uninstall. If the partition information on
your hard disk or disks has changed since you last installed
successfully (specifically, since the Suhdlog.dat file was created),
then you might experience partial or complete data loss as a result
of attempting to uninstall Windows Me.
8. TUTORIAL MOVIES
------------------
The PartitionMagic CD contains multimedia tutorials that visually step
you through the most commonly performed tasks in PartitionMagic. Any
Java-enabled web browser is capable of playing the tutorial movies.
However, for best results, the following web browsers are recommended.
Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
------------------------
Netscape 4.06 or better, 32 MB RAM, Pentium
Internet Explorer 4.0 or better, 32 MB RAM, Pentium
AOL 4.0 or better
Linux
-----
Netscape 4.x or better, 32 MB RAM
Solaris
-------
Netscape 4.x or better, 64 MB RAM
To play a movie,
1. Insert the PowerQuest PartitionMagic CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the DemoClip folder on the
PartitionMagic CD.
3. Double-click TRAINING.HTML to view the page in your default
web browser.
4. Double-click a movie title to play.
The tutorials are also available for viewing on the PowerQuest web site.
Go to http://www.powerquest.com/support. Select "PartitionMagic"
from the Demonstration Videos drop-down list, then click a movie
title to play.
9. POWERQUEST'S STORAGE MANAGER NEWSLETTER
------------------------------------------
PowerQuest has a free monthly electronic newsletter that is dedicated
to official announcements, tips, and techniques for PowerQuest
products. You can view the newsletter online at
www.powerquest.com/newsletter.
=======================================================================
PowerQuest can be reached at:
Voice: 801-437-8900
Fax: 801-226-8941
Web site: www.powerquest.com
E-mail: magic@powerquest.com
Copyright 1994-2001 PowerQuest Corporation. All rights reserved.
PartitionMagic and its use are subject to a license agreement and are
also subject to copyright, trademark, patent and/or other laws. Refer
to the user guide, the Help About screen, and www.powerquest.com/
legal_notices for additional information about PowerQuest patents.
PowerQuest, PartitionMagic, BootMagic and Drive Image are registered
trademarks of PowerQuest Corporation. All other brand and product
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners.