Re: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic

2001-04-11 Thread poogle
I seem to recall someone some time ago explaining that Partition Magic/System Commander etc use a "different" method for creating partitions and partition types, I can't be any more explicit because I don't understand it any more than that. However, I had a similar problem with a HD that had be

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic

2001-04-10 Thread Brett Hearn
this case? - Original Message - From: "Mark Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:48 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic > > > I have PM 3 which is old and I see everything. Are you sure you using it > >

RE: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic

2001-04-10 Thread Mark Shaw
> I have PM 3 which is old and I see everything. Are you sure you using it > correctly? Yeah. And I was able to manage my Windows partitions just fine. > + you got 60G's isn't that enough for 2 OS's Heck, that's enough for several more. I'd just like to be able to manage the Gnu/Linux parti

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic

2001-04-10 Thread Mark Shaw
I'm finding it difficult to believe nobody has an opinion on this -- heck, nobody's even flamed me for a clueless newbie :) > I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already > had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive. > > Although I'd already purchased a

[newbie] DiskDrake w/ PartitionMagic

2001-04-09 Thread Mark Shaw
I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that already had a single Windows Me partition on a 60G IBM hard drive. Although I'd already purchased a copy of PartitionMagic (v. 6.0) I wanted to put Mandrake through its paces, so I used DiskDrake to reduce the size of the FAT32 partition