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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:53:32 PST8PDT
From: "Dave Watson" <dwatson@deltanet.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Fwd: Help Desk

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Jon L said (Apr 18th):
"5) The plan is then to move the Boot Manager partition to the start
of the
drive, create a primary partition using the rest of the drive as a FAT
drive, copy the C drive back and at some time in the future split it
into
two primary partitions and install W98 there.

This is where stuff started to be strange. Drive Copy reported and
error
116 (bad start and/or stop information on the partition table and
was not
able to show any information on the drive. Partition Magic was the
same. "

I've been having a few probs with moving partitions around lately,
too, (see http://users.deltanet.com/users/dwatson/general.html) so
I'm probably not the right one to answer this. But I didn't see where
anyone else did. But I'm waaaaayyy behind in my mail.

Boot manager is a more complicated partition than a normal one. I
think it writes to the boot and partition sectors itself, changing
who's startable. I'd suggest deleting the BM partition, see if you
can set your other partitions startable with fdisk, one at a time, get
everything running right. Then install (not move) bm from fdisk.
Add your other partitions to the bm menu, all should be fine. I'm
guessing PM isn't quite smart enough to handle bm moves, and
since it's trivial to reinstall, why bother?

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