Error 4 Bad Argument Parameter Partition Magic
Activity What's New? Help Forums Forums Quick Links Search Forums Recent Posts Shoutbox Shoutbox Quick Links Full View Popup Members Members Quick Links Notable Members Current Visitors Recent Activity Menu The Helper Home Forums > Technical Support Zone > General Technical Support > Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0 Partition Magic Error #4 Discussion in 'General Technical Support' started by Blackveiled, Jul 1, 2008. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Blackveiled Formerly, Ban-Lord (Note: I am new to this program, lol. I usually format with MS-DOS, but I wanted to do something a bit quicker) Alright, basically, trying to format the partition (NTFS) of my external USB harddrive (WD 2500AAJ External USB Harddrive 250gb) with PartitionMagic, so I can give it support with the FAT32 filesystem also, along with the NTFS file system. But PartitionMagic looks at my external harddrive as a "BAD" drive: Also, whenever I try to create a new partition on the "BAD" drive, it tells me I cannot. Also, when I right click the "BAD" drive (my USB Harddrive), it gives me the only option to "Format". Now, heres where I get to the problem. Everything goes alright until I get to the part where I am actually formatting the drive, when my computer boots up and loads Windows XP, then PartitionMagic, I get this error, called Error #4, Code: Error 4 while executing BatchError 4 Bad argument / parameter Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be? Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 Blackveiled, Jul 1, 2008 #1 enouwee Non ex transverso sed deorsum Is it a pretty recent model of a Seagate external disk? If so, the answer is: you can't (easily) put anything beside NTFS on it. EDIT: hmmm, no. WD looks more like Western Digital. Did you already try to throw away the partition and re-create it? Did you make sure that no applications have files of that disk in use? enouwee, Jul 1, 2008 #2 Blackveiled Formerly, Ban-Lord enouwee said: ↑ EDIT: hmmm, no. WD looks more like Western Digital. Did you already try to throw away the partition and re-create it? Did you make sure that no applications have files of that disk in use?Click to expand... Yeah, I tried to already format the current partition on the harddrive at the moment, but I keep getting the Error #4 on when PartitionMagic starts after WindowsXP loads. I also tried when there were files, and when there were not files on the external harddrive, same
IP isWhoisCalculatorTool PointsNewsNews tip?ForumsAll ForumsHot TopicsGalleryInfoHardwareAll FAQsSite FAQDSL FAQCable TechAboutcontactabout uscommunityISP FAQAdd ISPISP Ind. ForumsJoin Search similar:Disk Utility can't repair TM backup drive[Help] SOLVED: Partition manager to extend primary partition?[OS X] I think I hosed my MacBook air.openSUSE 12.3 Available[Windows] Partition trouble! (SSD migration)Is it a bad idea to... Forums → Software and Operating Systems → Software → Error 4 Bad argument/parameter uniqs3971 Share « Startup manager-easy+free • Asterisk Key 6.0 - Freeware » Nagrom Nniuqjoin:2002-11-19Springfield, OR Nagrom Nniuq Member 2003-Oct-8 6:45 am Error 4 Bad argument/parameterTo make a long story short I've had hard drive troubles and want to use Partition Magic to http://www.thehelper.net/threads/partition-magic-error-4.84903/ reformat and partition one of my drives. I tried to do this today and I keep getting this error: Error 4 Bad argument/parameter. I've read what this means on their site and it makes no sense to me. Would someone please help me or walk me through what I need to do to get this drive formatted and partitioned with http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r8172969-Error-4-Bad-argument-parameter Partition Magic please.Thanks.I'm using Partition Magic 8.01 on WinXP Pro and the drive is 120GB. · actions · 2003-Oct-8 6:45 am · GILXA1226MVMjoin:2000-12-29Dayton, OH GILXA1226 MVM 2003-Oct-8 12:52 pm Here is the error straight from the horses mouth... ie PowerQuest:»www.powerquest.com/suppo ··· 4322.cfmIt also gives steps on how to fix the problem. · actions · 2003-Oct-8 12:52 pm · Nagrom Nniuqjoin:2002-11-19Springfield, OR Nagrom Nniuq Member 2003-Oct-8 6:11 pm Would you please read my post before posting your own. I mean I appreciate your time but as you didn't read my post you are wasting both of our time. · actions · 2003-Oct-8 6:11 pm · GILXA1226MVMjoin:2000-12-29Dayton, OH GILXA1226 MVM 2003-Oct-8 6:17 pm OK, do you not have a registered copy of PM? They said you could call tech support. To get it fixed, on top of using a program which comes with PM.Here are some other choices: If the drive has nothing on it... boot off of your windows XP disk. Get the installer to the point where you get to fool around with where to install and partitio
116 and 109 will be http://www.dir-xml.com/spooky/apps/pqdi/pqdi_1.htm reported on the PartitionInfo, but Drive Image will report Error 4.) If Error 4 occurs in Drive Image 2.x, it may be reported as a result of an incorrect calculation of large drive placeholders. This can be corrected quickly by using the PTEDIT error 4 utility.(This situation can only occur on drives larger than 8 GB, and will not occur in Drive Image Pro 3.x.) Contact PowerQuest Technical Support for guidance on performing this operation. There is no current resolution for this problem. Problem Description: Error 4 Bad argument/parameter error 4 bad Error 4 Problem Environment: PartitionMagic Drive Image Drive Image Pro DriveCopy VolumeManager ServerMagic Cause(s) of the problem This error usually indicates that you have specified an incorrect or nonexistent parameter for the executable you were trying to run. For example, you may have misspelled the name of a switch you typed at the command line (/IDE instead of /IPE, or something similar). Error 4 can also indicate partition table errors. Error 4 is reported when you attempt to create an image of a drive after you have received a "Drive is Bad" message for that drive.This error can also occur when the partition is seen as a Dynamic Drive. In Drive Image, the partition will be designated as "Other," while PartitionMagic will identify it as a Dynamic Disk.