Jish Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 (edited) I was in the process of removing a old partition from disk #2 (using PartitionMagic) but was greeted by an error message #49 (Write Error). I booted my PC using a Win98 boot disk to use FDisk but both drives SEEMS to have only one Non-Dos partition. I tried using the WinXP CD to just detect the partitions, but it only read one "Unknown" partition on each drive. But yet both OSes on my PC can use the drives normally. Please help me out here. OSes: Windows XP Pro (Dell OEM) w/SP1 Windows 98 SE Drives: HDD #1 -- (C:NTFS - H:FAT32) HDD #2 -- (D:FAT32 - I:FAT32) Edited March 8, 2003 by Jish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 never ever use "windows" version of partition magic. always make rescue disk, boot from it and then do all your partition operations there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jish Posted March 8, 2003 Author Share Posted March 8, 2003 Sounds like good advice for the future (thanks) but does not help the here and now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jish Posted March 8, 2003 Author Share Posted March 8, 2003 I did some looking and found "don't use fdisk if another boot manager (or something like that) was used". I am using BootMagic. Any ideas on how to resolve this issue? Even if I have to revert to the MS boot loader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jish Posted March 9, 2003 Author Share Posted March 9, 2003 Well, I uninstalled BootMagic and GoBack (boot programs). That seems to have fixed it. Too bad that broke the Win98 boot option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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