Why didn’t you tell us before that you had a dual monitor system, and jumped from win 9x to win xp? Either one could be problematic to Partition magic. The combination of both, well…
To bad about your defective card. Good luck anyway.
This is what I salvaged…
The truth is, I thought I did. If I didn’t, well, there’s not much I can do about that now.
I’m running an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 756 RAM and a 75 gig main drive (Barracuda something-or-other) with a Maxtor 70 gig backup. As it stood (More in a bit), tne 70 gig drive (secondary) was used for back-ups.
The operating systems were as follows- First, a Win 98 SE on primary one with XP dual booted on the second. After all this mess, it went from Win 98 SE on the front to Win 2000 on the front and Win XP on the second. The whole time this was happening I had a Vodoo 3000 2000 PCI running a secondary monitor (Dell 17’
Apparently the next three paragraphs are gone.
That’s it. I’m done with this shit. Fuck this and everything attached to it.
FWIW: I bought PM for Win98 and it operated just fine.
All I did was delete a partition COMPAQ insists putting on its laptops (maybe its desktops, too, I don’t know) as a system Restore/Backup, which I felt I didn’t need since I saved the critical stuff with a Zip Disk backup, and since I did have a laptop, I wanted the extra hard drive space.
So I buy PM, install it, run it, and viola! The Restore partition (drive D) goes bye-bye, and I now have my entire hard drive in C, CD in D, Zip in E, and everything is right in my little corner of computer hell.
Of course, when things go bad with the magic-thinkbox-that-makes-word-with-magic, I swing from the ceiling fan, screeching like a chimp, thumping my chest and growling, hurling feces at it until it works again, and then sulking in a corner munching on a banana.
If that doesn’t work, I take out my guns and threaten it with immediate and irrevocable destruction unless it bows to my desires immediately, and acknowledges me as it rightful Lord and Master.
This has, so far, failed to yield productive results.
But I always feel better afterwards, and that’s what really counts.
Those restore partitions are an absolutely ridiculous idea. What happens if your hard drive crashes? Or you want to install a new one? I’ve heard that you can get traditional restore CDs from Compaq if you’re willing to fork over a 10 bucks.