Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

skay wrote:
> I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> When I run
> the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> formatted
> 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> WinXP that
> it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> disk creation
> step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> Title: Disk Usage Information
> ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> insight would be appreciated.

You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

Yes with many, and I confirmed that they were writable and could hold
the max
(1.44MB) of data by copying files to them before I formatted them for
PM8.0 (wants
blank formatted disks)..... Not sure what the procedure is to move
forward on this....

On Nov 12, 4:56 pm, "Pop`" <nod....TakeThisOut@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
> skay wrote:
> > I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> > is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> > When I run
> > the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> > formatted
> > 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> > WinXP that
> > it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> > disk creation
> > step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> > Title: Disk Usage Information
> > ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> > Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> > Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> > Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> > Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> > setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> > mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> > insight would be appreciated.You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

Yes with many, and I confirmed that they were writable and could hold
the max
(1.44MB) of data by copying files to them before I formatted them for
PM8.0 (wants
blank formatted disks)..... Not sure what the procedure is to move
forward on this....

On Nov 12, 4:56 pm, "Pop`" <nod....TakeThisOut@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
> skay wrote:
> > I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> > is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> > When I run
> > the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> > formatted
> > 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> > WinXP that
> > it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> > disk creation
> > step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> > Title: Disk Usage Information
> > ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> > Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> > Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> > Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> > Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> > setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> > mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> > insight would be appreciated.You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error 

Yes with many, and I confirmed that they were writable and could hold
the max
(1.44MB) of data by copying files to them before I formatted them for
PM8.0 (wants
blank formatted disks)..... Not sure what the procedure is to move
forward on this....

On Nov 12, 4:56 pm, "Pop`" <nod... RemoveThis @devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:
> skay wrote:
> > I have PM8.0 installed on a brand new machine running WinXP Pro. PM8.0
> > is working perfectly w/ the exception of creating the rescue disks.
> > When I run
> > the task to create the rescue disks I get prompted to insert an empty,
> > formatted
> > 1.44M floppy. I use a disk I have just formatted and verified with
> > WinXP that
> > it is fine and completely empty and writable (duh). Every time the
> > disk creation
> > step begins I get a dialog that says:
>
> > Title: Disk Usage Information
> > ! There is not enough free space on the diskette.
>
> > Space Required: 1457000 bytes
> > Space Available: 4294967295 bytes
> > Space Needed: 1457001 bytes
>
> > Not sure what is causing this problem but I tried running the
> > setup.exe command that makes the rescue disks in Win2K compatibility
> > mode and WinNT compatibility mode with no success. Any help or
> > insight would be appreciated.You talked about "a disk": Have you tried it with other floppies?- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
 >> Stay informed about: Partition Magic 8.0 rescue disk create error