This is really bugging me now. I thought that there was some application that was preventing my Partition Magic (8.0) from loading. Whenever I open it, or PQ's Drive Image also, it just freezes on the splash screen.
Well today I installed a new hard drive. I deleted my previous system partition. I installed a clean windows XP. And then Partition Magic. There is NO OTHER software currently installed on my machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I have not used it to access the internet yet either, so it is a "virgin" system. The first time I opened PM, it worked. But then I tried to do something simple like change a drive letter on another partition and it froze.
The other partition I was trying to change was on the other (now "old") hard drive and is NTFS. Pm is on a FAT32 part.
I changed the drive letter using windows' disk management console. but from then on PM FREEZES on the splash screen exactly as before!!!! There has got to be something with my windows or disk partitions.
The new hard drive was totally raw, out of the box. I used the windows XP install CD to create the system partition. Should I have booted using the PQ floppy and allowed Partition Magic to create the partition? Is there with the way it was formatted?
I used the windows install cd to create a FAT32 partition for the C: system partition. it is into this partition that I installed Partition Magic. Should I have done NTFS instead?? (would that interfere with PM loading?)
My "old" hard drive has partitions that are NTFS (converted from FAT32), so should all the partitions on my system be one or the other not mixed - could that cause PM to freeze?????
Well, i have narrowed it down now. There is no anti virus or firewall or spyware or any other application installed. Brand new formatted drive. There's not much else it could be other than something with the partition formatting itself or windows - but PM says that it works with windows XP - this is the new version.
Any clue????????
Well today I installed a new hard drive. I deleted my previous system partition. I installed a clean windows XP. And then Partition Magic. There is NO OTHER software currently installed on my machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I have not used it to access the internet yet either, so it is a "virgin" system. The first time I opened PM, it worked. But then I tried to do something simple like change a drive letter on another partition and it froze.
The other partition I was trying to change was on the other (now "old") hard drive and is NTFS. Pm is on a FAT32 part.
I changed the drive letter using windows' disk management console. but from then on PM FREEZES on the splash screen exactly as before!!!! There has got to be something with my windows or disk partitions.
The new hard drive was totally raw, out of the box. I used the windows XP install CD to create the system partition. Should I have booted using the PQ floppy and allowed Partition Magic to create the partition? Is there with the way it was formatted?
I used the windows install cd to create a FAT32 partition for the C: system partition. it is into this partition that I installed Partition Magic. Should I have done NTFS instead?? (would that interfere with PM loading?)
My "old" hard drive has partitions that are NTFS (converted from FAT32), so should all the partitions on my system be one or the other not mixed - could that cause PM to freeze?????
Well, i have narrowed it down now. There is no anti virus or firewall or spyware or any other application installed. Brand new formatted drive. There's not much else it could be other than something with the partition formatting itself or windows - but PM says that it works with windows XP - this is the new version.
Any clue????????