I still need help with ph disk

Although I didn't get any replies from my last post on phdisk, I did find some info elsewhere. But I'm still having problems. I've read if I choose phdisk /create /partition, I have to state how much disk space to use for the save to disk feature. However,if I choose phdisk /create /file, it will figure the amount of space needed and display it in killobytes. Which it does.

It says "please imput size(Minimal : 21166)KB: ".

I can type in that amount or anything higher that it and it tells me,

"ERROR:
The specified partition is too small to use the Save to Disk feature. Please specify a larger partition size or invoke PHDISK without a size parameter to use the default size. "

I have doubled and even tripled that size with the same message.
I can't find anyway to invoke phdisk without a size parameter. That option does not appear. It has:
1. Create Partition
2. Create File
3. Reboot
4. Exit

If I choose Create Partition, it still ask for a file size and does the same as when I choose Create File.

What am I doing wrong????

 

I don't have this software myself and therefore have no first hand knowledge of it. That said, I did a little bit of reading about it and from what I've read my first question would be; did this software come with the computer? If not it won't work because your computers bios has to support it. Now, I did notice a couple things in your other post with the info about the program.

From this it would appear you aren't allocating near enough space. The amount your starting with is roughly 20 MB and if you triple it your still only going to have about 60. Looking at your sig I see you have 768 MB ram. As it says in the quote, the partition has to be larger than the amount of ram you have. 768 MB would be 786432 KB. So unless I'm reading things wrong you need to up it a whole bunch. If you want to use the phdisk /create /partition you have to have a special partition available. If it isn't already created you'll have to run fdisk to make it. I don't know if your familiar with fdisk or not so I have to add the following. If you use fdisk to create the partition you'll lose everthing on your drive and be starting all over again. Is it worth it???? You could maybe use something like partition magic to do it but when I was searching for info I saw something about some sorts of issues involved when using it. I didn't read very far into it so I'm not sure what they were but I'm sure I could find the page again.

If you don't have a partition available you should be able to use the phdisk /create /file option. From what I gather it'll create a file in the root of your c: drive. The file you create however also has to be larger than the amount of ram you have. So, take the figure I gave you and tack on a bit (maybe 787000 ?). Maybe you don't need to go that high even. It'll probably accept it if you only give it 1 extra kb. Don't know. Give it a try and let us know what the results are.

 

I am starting over

I just put in the h/d. It's not partitioned for the notebook. I need to partition it with the STD feature. As for the ram, I have 768 megs on this system. The notebook has only 16, therefore the 20 megs I was imputing seems correct, but it keeps telling me it's too small.

Thanks for trying