Laptop questions

Parv parv at pair.com
Mon Sep 12 01:21:23 PDT 2005


in message <200509112357.j8BNvDo0026898 at clunix.cl.msu.edu>, 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.


  - Parv

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