It all started with
Partition Magic 8 Error 510 – The version of the file system is not supported
I ended sleeping at 3:30 am on yet another day ! It isn’t new to me sleeping early in morning than at night.
I had two hard disks, one 80GB IDE and one 250GB SATA. The 80GB one was the old one which had the windows OS primary partition along with one extended partition with four logical drives. In addition to that I had a Linux partition on which I was having Fedora.
As the free space in my C drive (Win XP OS) was under 1 GB, I decided to resize the partitions and make some free space on C drive for windows to breath a bit more comfortable..
Thats where I ended up with – “Partition Magic 8 Error 510 – The version of the file system is not supported”
It took me a day’s time to research and find out that the linux partition in the same disk was causing this error. (My File systems were FAT32 and there should have been any problem for partition magic). So if you get such a message, first check whether you have any such partitions on your disk !!
Erazing the linux partitions did Partition Magic to work, but the prolems didnt get solved there !!
I was using grub as the bootloader. Once the linux partitions were removed, I wasn’t able to access my windows XP too !!! More problems
Luckily I had my laptop with me to do some more research on fixing the master boot record by using the windows “fixmbr” command for winXP.
My system was back to life…………..
Another day with short sleep from 3:30 …… But the experience and challenge to do things like this makes me to explore more and get into more troubles !!! 🙂
I used Disk Management on Windows XP SP 3, deleted linux partition, then used Partition Magic 8.0, worked like a charm.
@Scott Hamm, good to know that you could fix this error on your system!