Using bootitng I moved the data partition that my portable apps are on, and the two installs of Win XP, to different positions on the hard drive (to make room to enlarge another partition). Now the apps will start ok from one of the XPs but not the other. They used to start fine from both. If I copy them to a 4th partition, they will run ok from it. I'd like to keep using the original one -- is there some way to fix this?
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Are the partitions all at the same relative level on the hard drive, that is, the same number of sub-directories from the "root"?
Are you talking about the PAM menu not starting, or do the apps not start, even if you use Explorer to find somethingPortable.exe and double click on it.
Are are you talking about them starting but not finding their data? Are there error messages that you see?
Did you use something like WinmergePortable to make sure the files got copied exactly?
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I replied once but it seems to have been lost.
The XP partitions are primary partitions. The apps are on a volume of the extended partition. All 3 were moved to different positions on the HD, toward the start, and the newer XP where the problems happen was moved from after the extended to before it. The older XP where there are no problems was already before the extended.
I'm starting these individually: Sunbird, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice. OpenOffice is unaffected, Sunbird is the worst.
Starting up one, the "portable[appname].exe" file starts but freezes and can't be shut down with task manager, and never starts its main app. Trying again *may* start the app, but the launcher file remains frozen, where it should shut down. Closing windows takes a long time because of this. There is no error message.
I did the partition work with bootitng.
I tried renaming Sunbird's partition and installing a fresh copy, but that one does the same thing.
I can copy the apps to a 4th partition - a volume in the extended, and they work ok, but I don't want them there.
I ran chkdsk on the volume the apps are in and everything is fine.
It was a corrupted XP, apparently.