On Sunday 12 October 2003 06:40 pm, robin wrote:Yes, but I assumed that anyone on this list would have Mandrake or be thinking of installing it ;-)
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Sunday 12 October 2003 02:22 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:What's wrong with the partitioning tool that comes with the Mandrake
On Sunday 12 October 2003 07:44 am, John wrote:If you have to use one, Paragon Hard Drive Manager works much the same as
The newbie mail has provided a lot of info. for me over the last 2I used Partition Magic on a 450, which is essentially the same machine, I
months. Being new, there is a lot to learn even from the OT mail.
Example: I have been trying to install md9.1 on a gateway 1450se with xp
and phoenix bios.
think. Mine was pre-installed with W2K, though, and I did nuke the
pre-install and installed clean with our site-licensed W2K. I'm quad
booting this machine due to legacy programs that require DOS, some that
run in W98 but not W2K, and W2K for the rest of the stuff. My personal
partition boots Mandrake. I had problems with the PCMCIA controller and
the AMR modem--the modem is a lost cause.
Partition Magic, has all the same features, IIRC, and has the added
benefit of supporting ReiserFS, HPFS, JFS, I think. I know for sure that
is supports Reiser. Also, it has an executable that is installable under
Linux that provides a lot of features, although not all as in Windows. Supports moving partitions entirely over to alternate drives, resizing
partitions (Reiser included), etc.
If you have to use a Windows partition manager, I would get that one over
Partition Magic.
installation program? I've used it several times and never lost data.
Note the "If you have to use a Windows partition manager" part of the phrase.
Sir Robin
-- "I declare this sentence a performative!"
Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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