[Mogul]

Hokay, I finally got my box fixed up as a dual-boot RH9/XP machine. I wanted to reopen Partition Magic to take a gander at disk space and perhaps resize my partitions, but it gives me this error every time I try to open it:

INIT Failed: Error 117
Partition's drive letter cannot be identified

Anything I can do to fix this? The program worked fine before I installed RH9, so I figured that it must have something to do with my RH9 Partition being called '/' Any help is appreciated.

[razob]

Well... I'm using partition magic 8.0 for one month ago. I have XP, and i tried to install win 98 and linux. I got the same problem when I installed for first time win 98, then I resetore my disk and I installed win 98 again and I didn´t have any trouble. Then I installed mandrake linux fine but today I've installed RH9 too, as you and I got the error again. It seems that the problem in my two cases is that I left the instalation to format the partition I made with Power Magic. The problem might be that Pawer M. create system files in this new partition, and when you format those files partition magic crashes.

You can run partition magic in dos/rescue boot diskettes!!!

I'm going to install the patch 8.1 for Pastition Magic, if its dont fix anything then I will run PM and delete my linux partiton for later make it again.

[Pake000]

Im having same problem and i was told it iscause i made a partition using partition magic then installed linux on that partition. This is a big no no.

if you want to install linux user the existing space where windows is linux will or should make a partition for you and the drive will still be readable to partition magic.

Unless someone can help you or me with this situation we will be buying new hd's

[lynch]

You can run partition magic in dos/rescue boot diskettes!!!

I agree. I never install PM to a hard drive because of these kinds of problems.
I recently installed RH 9 on a comp running XP Pro and I created the ext3 and swap partitions with the PM bootdisks and there was no problems whatsoever.
HTH
lynch