Just bought Partition Magic 8.0 which is turning out to be anything but
"quick or easy."
After installing it and re-booting I get Error 27 "Cannot lock drive." I
went to their
tech support site, played merri-go-links for awhile and concluded their tech
site sucks.
I was looking through google archives and this seems to be a common
problem. And
the solution always seems to be to make rescue disks to boot from.

*Does anyone know if there another way to get this to work?*

I'll be quite up front about this. I'm not making anything. This shit
either
works the way it is or it becomes a clay pigeon and I'll have my bank
reverse
the credit card charges.

So, if anyone knows a way to get it to work, I'd really appreciate hearing
about it.

Otherwise....Pull!

AND THEY WONDER WHY PEOPLE CRACK SOFTWARE.

"longnine009" <wbrem123@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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So have you tried anything yet to fix it?

"mark mandel" <ms@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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rescue disks to re-boot from. I'm not doing that. If I'm doing something
wrong, that's one thing. But if this software requires that I make rescue
disks
for it to work, well, how mickey mouse is that? What about people who buy
new
computers that don't have A-drives? What would they do? I'm still looking
through the archives but it's always the same thing--make rescue disks to
re-boot from. Their "support" site doesn't even address an Error 27 and yet
Error 27 is all over the place in google.

"longnine009" <wbrem123@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Yeah, I just gave up looking when I went to the website, not knowing how
many error #'s I'd have to go through to get to this one. Someone else
posting here might have a solution, otherwise check out www.pcguide.com
where there are some pretty sharp geeks that can help.

"mark mandel" <ms@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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"longnine009" <wbrem123@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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If its really bothering you that much, why don't you just make a startup
disk? Then you can sort the problem out.

--
Global_Killa
"You're a victim of the rules you live by!"

http://punkthenation.tk

longnine009 wrote:


Well they can make a bootable CD-ROM. The rescue disks are actually the
safer way to (re)partition, it minimizes any possible corruption of
files that may be in use at the time.

Stuart