On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:07:29 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Thomas Mueller asked:
> .. > When Partition Magic reduces the size of a big FAT16 partition, only a
> .. > small percentage occupied, from 2 GB to 255 MB, would the allocation unit
> .. > be reduced from 32768 bytes to 4096 bytes?
> Yes.
Thomas Mueller asked:
. > When Partition Magic reduces the size of a big FAT16 partition, only a
. > small percentage occupied, from 2 GB to 255 MB, would the allocation unit
. > be reduced from 32768 bytes to 4096 bytes?
Yes. In fact, you can even specify the size of the allocation (cluster
> I have found that with Partition Magic I can make another partition
on my drive, either for DOS or for Linux, without having to re-format
the whole thing and erase all the data that is already on it. I can't
do that with DOS FDISK. I never tried FDISK for Linux. I'm still to
much of a
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 02:29:45 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:13:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
>> All this talk about "installing Partition Magic" has me baffled as-well.
>> Partioning of an HDD simply consists of rewriting the partition
>> table located at the beg
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:11:30 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>
>>> Still sounds risky to me. I wouldn't want to try partitioning without
>>> a backup of all files.
Probably is. Of course I have done a fair amount of resizing & repartitioning of
fat16,
fat32, ntfs, & hpfs (os/2) partitions without pro
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:02:04 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
>> Still sounds risky to me. I wouldn't want to try partitioning without
>> a backup of all files.
>> It's just asking for trouble.
> It IS risky and PM recommends having a backup, too. But in most cases
> You won't need the backup.
Mos
Hi Sam and all,
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:50:54 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:48:01 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
>> None of those can resize a partition with files in place, with no
>> loss of stored data; that "resize" is either larger or smaller.
> Still sounds risky to me. I woul
L.D. Best wrote:
>
> However, most "knowledgable" users do something on a routine
> basis that is just as hazardous to file integrity as partition
> resizing with decent software: They "optimize" their HDD --
> with Norton Speed Disk or M$ whatever software -- and in doing
> so they are trust
Well, a current backup is always a good thing to have.
However, most "knowledgable" users do something on a routine basis that
is just as hazardous to file integrity as partition resizing with decent
software: They "optimize" their HDD -- with Norton Speed Disk or M$
whatever software -- and in
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:48:01 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> None of those can resize a partition with files in place, with no
> loss of stored data; that "resize" is either larger or smaller.
Still sounds risky to me. I wouldn't want to try partitioning without
a backup of all files.
It's just as
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:48:07 -0800, L.D. Best wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:13:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Partioning of an HDD simply consists of rewriting the partition
>> table located at the beginning of the drive.
>> Every version of DOS includes Fdisk.exe.
>> Every version of Lin
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:13:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> Partioning of an HDD simply consists of rewriting the partition
> table located at the beginning of the drive.
> Every version of DOS includes Fdisk.exe.
> Every version of Linux includes Fdisk.
> There are also many freely available (o
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 07:37:44 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I just caught up with a backlog of email so am a bit late with this, but is
> Partition Magic actually installed as a permanent or long-term resident of the
> hard drive? I think it would have to be run from diskette or CD rather
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 07:37:44 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I just caught up with a backlog of email so am a bit late with this, but is
> Partition Magic actually installed as a permanent or long-term resident of the
> hard drive?
Yes
> I think it would have to be run from disk
I just caught up with a backlog of email so am a bit late with this, but is
Partition Magic actually installed as a permanent or long-term resident of the
hard drive? I think it would have to be run from diskette or CD rather than on
a disk being modified, and there would have to be no activity o
Hi Gerald,
I dunno if You can d/l this stuff. I got my copy from my brother-in-law.
I dunno where he has it from (and I don't want to know :-)). If You want
it (1060308 bytes in a rar file) feel free to write me a mail. I guess
Powerquest will survive this :-).
Regards Joerg
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:09:39 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
> BTW: There is Partition Magic for DOS. I have V. 5.0, copyright date
> 1999.
>
How easy is that to get hold of? Is it downloadable from anywhere? It
seems relatively recent
Gerald.
Thanks, Glenn, I will get that from your site. I thought that there were
some DOSes out there that were FAT32, e.g., M$DOS 7(?), PC-DOS(?) and DRDOS
and possibly OS/2.
Now that I have the large HD, I have a lot of room for futzing around --- all
I need is the time.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:06:22 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Sam Ewalt wrote:
> .. > It can't be illegal to make "Partition Magic Rescue Disk" for DOS
> .. > from a Windows install if that is what the software is designed to
> .. > do. They have obviously given you the right to do this by including
>
Hi Sam and all,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:30:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> OK, but many software licenses say that you are allowed to use the
> software on only one computer. My question is this:
I understand this as "use the software on only one computer at the same
time".
> If you produ
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:30:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> OK, but many software licenses say that you are allowed to use the
> software on only one computer. My question is this:
> If you produce a DOS rescue disk from the Partition Magic software
> that you have installed on your Windows
Hi Samuel!
11 Jan 2002, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> OK, but many software licenses say that you are allowed to use the
SH> software on only one computer. My question is this:
SH> If you produce a DOS rescue disk from the Partition Magic software
SH> that you have ins
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:45:47 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:57:39 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> It is my interpretation that Partition Magic will run under DOS,
>> however, there is a problem in that you need Windows in order to
>> prepare a "Partition Magic Rescue Disk" t
Sam Ewalt wrote:
. > It can't be illegal to make "Partition Magic Rescue Disk" for DOS
. > from a Windows install if that is what the software is designed to
. > do. They have obviously given you the right to do this by including
. > the capability to this in the software. It's obviously a legall
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:57:39 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> It is my interpretation that Partition Magic will run under DOS,
> however, there is a problem in that you need Windows in order to
> prepare a "Partition Magic Rescue Disk" that will boot to DOS and
> run the DOS version which Windo
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:03:57 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> I was just at the PowerQuest site, specifically looking to see if
> PartitionMagic 7.0 still would run under DOS. According to PQ it does.
> Which makes me wonder why a "Technical Editor" is answering software
> questions in a manner that di
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:52:23 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>PowerQuest does not sell a version of PartitionMagic that is strictly for
>DOS. You need access to a Windows machine to create the rescue disks from
>a Windows version of the product.
Actually, you can do this using Version 3. You ca
Sam,
I don't think that I ever indicated that Powerquest offered a separate DOS
version of Partition Magic. What I did say was that Powerquest *includes* a
DOS version of Partition Magic on their CD-ROM.
If you want a DOS only, on-the-fly partitioner, there are/were several
freeware/sharewar
I was just at the PowerQuest site, specifically looking to see if
PartitionMagic 7.0 still would run under DOS. According to PQ it does.
Which makes me wonder why a "Technical Editor" is answering software
questions in a manner that disagrees with the website itself.
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23
Hello:
The forwarded message appended below may be of special interest
to Roger and also to several others. I am passing it on to the
list.
Sam Heywood
- Forwarded message begins -
From: "Jennifer Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The rescue disk version of PartitionMagic runs under DOS. If
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