Re: Partition Magic on a Compaq Presario
From: John Doue (notwobe_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/19/04
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:03:39 +0200
Jack Gillis wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Glad this worked for you. I have often overlooked this option in case of
problem but I now always carry two PM diskettes. Personally, I distrust
booting from a CD and will stick to laptops and desktops have diskette
drives since it makes troubleshooting so much easier.
Regarding my memory, I forget where your laptop comes from but the
obvious explanation might be just the obvious: have you check the memory
chip on your machine ? I guess XP does not work too well with only 194M
if this is the case.
Regards and glad I could contribute to help you out.
-- John Doue
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