To clear things up, Partition magic does not by default destroy data on a
disk. for instance, let's say you have a 20GB hard drive which has only one
partition, which is formatted FAT and has 3GB used. If you want to change
this to 1 FAT partition of say 4GB, and then 2 NTFS partitions of 8GB,
Partition magic will do this for you, and you will lose no data. On the
other hand if you decided you wanted to have one FAT partition of 2GB, and 2
9GB NTFS partitions, you would most likely lose all of your data. The only
way to get around this in this scenario, would be to try and back up 1+GB of
data, and then delete this data, so that you have less than 2GB of data on
you hard drive. Now change the partition structure with Partition magic,
and then restore the data to one of the NTFS drives.
HTH,
TN.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:22 PM
To: CF-Server
Subject: Re: Setting up NTFX on Win2000
Of course Partition Magic destroys the contents when formatting...that's
what formating is, unless I am misunderstanding some angle. The whole point
of using partition magic, or lilo (if your k00l <g>) is not destroying data
when changing file systems...
The easiest way to have multiple partitions on a single drive with as many
different files systems as you want is Partition Magic. It works in DOS,
Windows 95,98,2000 and even, god help you OS/2...
As noted earlier, Convert is not reversible. Partition Magic is.
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: RE: Setting up NTFX on Win2000
> > I have Win2k installed on my laptop and the hd came from dell
> > formatted fat. I split the partition into system & programs /
> > all other files (i did this so i can reformat and reinstall
> > the os and programs but not have to backup my files. If I use
> > partition magic to move over to the NTFS, what issues am I
> > faced with. I am not running any other OS (well actually RH7,
> > but i dont care if it can see the partition).
>
> Rather than use Partition Magic, you can just use the console command
> CONVERT. If I recall correctly, Partition Magic will destroy the contents
of
> the partition when reformatting.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
>
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