Well this depends on the version of dos that you load partition magic with. I use the dos version from Windows 98se, and then I use PM to work 20 + GB hard drives with no problem. On Saturday 02 December 2000 13:10, you wrote: > > Is there a linux equivalent to Partition Magic. > > I own a copy of PM and I know that PM is compatible with linux. But PM > uses the BIOS to read the partitions. > > Linux will read a much larger hard drive than the bios can read in dos. > Therefore linux can read and use partitions beyond what the bios can see in > dos. Presently PM cannot handle the HD part beyond what the bios sees > because it really runs in DOS and not really under linux. That is why I > wonder if there is a similar utility that actually runs under linux to > address the part of the hd beyond bios under dos. > > Thanks. > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux user 183185 ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- 73 de KK6WJ
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