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.

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?

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?

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...@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 -

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...@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 -

Hello Skay

Did you find the solution to this problem? i am experiencing the same
thing on my Windows XP professional system, but under Windows XP home
edition it works.

Cheers

Marcel

skay;6947180 Wrote:
> 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...@devnull.spamcop.net>
> wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> > skay wrote:
> >
> >
> >


--
marmeer

Hello Skay

Did you find the solution to this problem? i am experiencing the same
thing on my Windows XP professional system, but under Windows XP home
edition it works.

Cheers

Marcel

skay;6947180 Wrote:
> 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...@devnull.spamcop.net>
> wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> > skay wrote:
> >
> >
> >


--
marmeer

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





TO FIX THE ABOVE ... restart the computer in Windows SAFE MODE (F8 key before windows boots up) and run the program again ... it will work properly ... (something with XP's SP2 stops the program and floppy drive responding correctly and gives you the above error) - hope this helps - it always works for me .... (I now created lots of pairs of disks from within SAFE MODE)

And update Partition Magic 8.0 to 8.1 asap!!!!!!!

carsont <tony.carson@aah.co.uk> wrote:

>
>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
>
>
>
>
>
>TO FIX THE ABOVE ... restart the computer in Windows SAFE MODE (F8
>key before windows boots up) and run the program again ... it will work
>properly ... (something with XP's SP2 stops the program and floppy drive
>responding correctly and gives you the above error) - hope this helps -
>it always works for me .... (I now created lots of pairs of disks from
>within SAFE MODE)
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

I'm having the same problem exactly. Maybe it's a Windows XP thing? I've posted it on several forums, but no answer. Have you had any luck?

Stu Culp