[ltp] gain exclusive access to disk?

[Matt Graham]

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 10:13, after a long battle with technology, 
Josh Battles wrote:
> Josh Battles said:
> > I make the changes with partition magic 8 and then when I reboot so 
> > that it can apply my changes I get "error 27: cannot lock drive." 

Why do you need PQMagic to resize partitions?  Use ntfsresize or FIPS; 
they work well and avoid all the bugs you get in PQMagic.

> > I then disabled the security chip as well as Norton AV, but
> > am still unable to gain exclusive access to the drive so that PM8
> > can resize the NTFS partition.  What am I missing here?

You're trying to use PQMagic.  That's usually a bad move.  Norton 
anything these days is also usually a bad move; their utilities' 
quality has gone downhill.

> Nobody here can help me with this?

See above.  If you have an NTFS partition to resize, use ntfsresize; it 
works fine according to the reports I've seen on col.*.

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