Partition Commander and Partition Magic problems

[zillah]

I used partition commander (V8) to partiton the hard drive (40 GB) of my Dell Laptop Latitude D600, to 3 types:

NTFS(primary) and Extended primary (with many logical ) some of them for Linux, and Solaris(primary).

I installed 3 OSs successfully (Windows 2000 server, FC3, Solaris 10), without any problem.

But When I tried to use the partition commander utility later (boot from DOS)to verify (under Tools->Validate) the NTFS partition, it hung up and it did not go through.

By the way when I installed only windows (before I installed the other two), I have got no problem.

The same problem happened with partition commander before also (i.e. this is not the first time).

And I had expierenced similar problem (not same) with Partition Magic (it told there is error in the partition do you want to fix it? some thing like this) also.

I realized (but not sue), whenever I installed more than one OSs on the same Hard Disk, then later on if I want to check the hard disk with the same utility that I used to partition that hard disk, I expeirenced the problem.

Have any one had same problem ?

Edited July 1, 2005 by zillah

[zillah]

Any idea

[fdv]

Allright, I'll take a wild flying huge guess.

Fedora Core 3 uses an older NTFS driver combined with an install routine that has caused some errors on your NTFS volume. Upgrade to FC4 on the presumption that enough time has passed to the point where you have better drivers and a cleaner installation process.

Yeah, I know, like I said.... Just a guess.