ptedit problem with third partition

[piercehan]

i am trying to let XP recognize the third partition i made so that i can share it between both OSs... i followed the wiki to make the third partition and am trying to use Ptedit. i boot from the disc but when i get to the dos prompt, my keyboard is locked and wont type a thing ... any suggestions?

[kirreip]

ok, try this:

Download PTEDIT32.ZIP to your desktop and run the .exe file.

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/PTEDIT32.zip

In the "Type" field for disk 3, change what is there to 0B and then reboot.
Hope this helps

[piercehan]

perfect thanks a lot

[Grape]

Hello,

I am getting an error when I try to run ptedit32: "Error #5 when starting PowerQuest Engine." I've tried downloading it from various places but all copies report the same error. I'm running Vista now, and I had the same problem in XP (and I never did get XP to recognise the shared FAT32 partition), but I'd lke to finally get it working. Is there any other way to modify the partition table (say, via the command line)? Thanks very much for any help.

Grape