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Partitions Created by Using PartitionMagic 5.0 Appear Inactive in Windows XP Setup

Article ID: 282008

Article Last Modified on 7/24/2007



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional



This article was previously published under Q282008


SYMPTOMS

If you create a partition by using PartitionMagic 5.0 by PowerQuest, this partition appears as Inactive (OS/2 Boot Manager) during the installation of Windows XP regardless of the operating system that resides on that partition.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because Windows XP Setup does not recognize the file system ID of PartitionMagic version 5.0.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this behavior, download the PartitionMagic 5.01 update for Windows 2000 from the following PowerQuest Web site:

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Keywords: kb3rdparty kbprb kbsetup kbui KB282008