partition magic help please

[philip41]

I have 2 drives on my machine, xp pro on drive 1, had linux on 1 of the partitions on drive 2.
After linux was up and running, i rebooted into windows, started up Partion magic 8.0, the next thing i know is PM is stating that the second drive with at that time 4 partitions on it is bad.
Xp's computer managment console states that all is well with the drive.
So obviously something happened during the install of Ubuntu Linux.
I have now removed linux from this machine, to an other pc.
Using computer management console i have deleted, repartitioned and formated .
I have also run the recovery console, performed fixmbr, and everything is running fine, i can use all the partitions, and xp sees them fine.
I have run check disk on each partition.(no errors)
I have even run the Seatools app from Seagate.(no errors)

And yet PM still says the disk is bad, the only operation it will let me perform is to format the whole drive.

I wish to be able to merge M and N into one partition, but i am unable to.

Any suggestions for a fix please.

[philip41]

This problem must be something to do with PM, as i used it to set up my other box to install linux on, the install went fine everything is working great, but PM shows the same problem as the other PC.

So unless someone knows what is wrong i will just live with it.

[Jiff Lemon]

You got the update for PM8? takes it to version 8.03 IIRC

[philip41]

You got the update for PM8? takes it to version 8.03 IIRC

just been to Symatec site no updates listed for Norton PM 8. My version is Norton PartitionMagic Version 8.05 (Build 1371) 05/05/2004