Re: Partition Magic on a Compaq Presario

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From: Jack Gillis (jgilNOSPAM_at_widomaker.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:51:18 -0500

John Doue wrote:
> A different approach, may be to be tried first: create the PM boot
> disks and attempt the same resizing for there: you would bypass this
> way any restriction from the OEM XP.
>
> Let me know, I am curious...
>
> Regards

Well, I finally got a Bootable CD for Partition Magic created. When I
booted from it and ran PM, everything worked out fine. Thanks for your
suggestion. Getting a working bootable PM CD was a real learning
experience for me.

Now I can go on to find out why Control/Panel/System shows 194M of RAM
(BIOS Setup shows the same thing.) and the modem crashes the system and
automatically reboots. The two maybe related but I'm not sure. Anyway
I guess I will have to change XP to make it not reboot on errors --
should have done that straight away.