does anyone knows how solve error 117. I have instull and uninstull partition magic twice already and search online for a concret solution with no success. BTY I am using NTFS file systems.

Dan.
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Dan, this problem appears to be known, it looks like there may have been one of several causes, it's not related to the partition magic version number, it's a problem possibly on your harddisk, or caused by harddisk utilities of some type:

src: forums.devshed.com/t101165/scbcbbd265936fa289bb7509e7e211eb9.html


Another possible solution here:
hallinternet.com/store/software_B000071XCA_PartitionMagic-8.0.html


was one likely solution, try using your partition magic boot disks to partition your drive, sometimes when you are working in dos mode certain problems don't occur.

Also try running chdsk on your harddisk, assuming you only have a c: drive, do this:

click start, run, type in cmd, that brings up a dos window,
type in: chkdsk c: /i /c [there is a space between chkdsk and c: and between c: and /i and between /i and /c ]

hit enter, see if any errors are reported, you will need to add one thing to that to fix them, like this:

chkdsk c: /f /i /c

the /f will fix errors, but don't do it until you are sure you need to, if you have errors in certain places and they get fixed your system might not run.
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jeffd,

I've tried to repair the system with chkdsk, but there is no effect. I've also made 2 boot disks for Partition Magic, but it couldn't recognize the HDD in MS-DOS mode, I mean it prints "BAD partition table". The strange thing is, that I have Windows XP and SuSE installed on the system and there is no problem with the partitions, but I want to convert my NTFS partition to FAT32 to have write access from SuSE.
Any other ideas?
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If you have SUSE installed, why not use its built in partioning tool to reformat the questionable partition, or the whole disk, if you have XP on a separate disk. That's easy to do from either the command line or from the tool, I don't know what SUSE comes with natively, but QTParted is pretty standard, there are others too, you'll usually find them under 'system tools' or something like that in KDE.
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I've tried to, but I had problems with formatting under FAT32... it seems like I have to find a way to write over NTFS partition under Linux...
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In Linux just delete the partition completely, then create a new partition formatted with fat32, linux handles fat32 natively, unlike ntfs.

It's also possible to do this with Partition magic, but you'll probably want to get the latest one. You have to clean up the disk partitition table in that case. If the disk only has xp on it, with ntfs, then you can download a disk utility, and bring the disk all the way back to factory condition, which means no partition table at all, just zeros all the way across, then start over again.
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I can't format the whole disk from the first sector, because I have important information on it. Also, I have XP and SuSE. No way to change the partition with PMagic - as described in the first post, error 117 detected.
Now I'll check for the partition utility in SuSE, but as far as I remember I had problems there, too... hope that I'm wrong.
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Is this a data partition alone, or is it the xp partition itself?

If it's xp, you'll be reinstalling xp anyway since you can't change the file system type on the fly, that means you can just delete and reformat it using the windows installer.

If it's a data partition, you can just delete it from inside of xp, then reformat it using the native windows formatting tools. It's pretty easy to do that. If you have to resize the partition, just delete it, then use qtparted to resize it and format it to fat32.

There's no particular reason to use partition magic at all in this process. People tend to forget about the native xp formatting tools.
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It's my secondary partition, I use another one for Windows XP. I usually create 3 partitions on an empty HDD - Windows partition, Linux partition and data one. Then I install XP on the first partition and format the second one under Windows XP, but last week I had unexpected crash on the system (it's a long story) and when I had to format the 2nd partition, it has printed me that only NTFS format is available because of the bigger partition.
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The partition size shouldn't matter, fat32 supports up to 2 terabyte partitions.

You should be able to reformat the data partition from inside of suse though.
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