> > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote > Jerry McAllister thusly... > > > > I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to > > manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. > > Same here. > > > > Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are > > booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To > > work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you > > must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic > > documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice > > manipulation. > > Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while Partition Magic 6.x > was running on MS Windows (XP, and probably Me, don't remember about > 98), w/o use of floppies or CDs.
I could do some things, but not what I needed. Using the floppies made it all work and it was quite straightforward. I was changing slice sizes (shrinking) and slice types. So, ??? ////jerry > > - Parv _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
