[ltp] T42 Win XP RescueRecovery from CD hung

[Ulrich Scholler]

Hi,

On Tue Jan 11, 2005 at 19:55:59 +0100, Florence Berbain wrote:
> On a related note, I used Partition Magic to shrink the original WinXP 
> partition and format the free space to ext3 (so my linux partitions sit 
> between the WinXP partition at the beginnning of the disk and the 
> Restore partition at the end). But now Partition Magic says it lost the 
> drive letters, so I can't use it at the moment. Reinstalling PM didn't help.

I have had a similar problem resulting in the same error message
recently.  I resolved it by using another (commercial) partition manager
that for some reason did not choke on my partition table.  It seems that
Partition Magic is a little fussy.

Regards,

uLI