Screw fdisk anymore...Partition Magic 8

digitalwanderer · Feb 28, 2003, 01:32 AM

Me finally decided to give it a go, and WOW!

Talk about making a hard thing easy? I set-up me partitions without losing my operating system, and that was just poking around before I read the manual and such!

I can't wait to see what other tricks this puppy has got, it's a sweet application.

Vampyromaniac · Feb 28, 2003, 06:42 AM

Oh, uh oops I replied to your Other thread asking for help . . .
Well glad you're on the right track, and YES PartitionMagic is a Wonderful app! Along with Ghost, 2 most essential disk gruntwork apps

digitalwanderer · Feb 28, 2003, 02:05 PM

Yeah, I got the drive squared away how I like very easily with it, it's definately been added to me arsenal of emergency utils.

FuNsTeR · Feb 28, 2003, 09:49 PM

Drive Image pro 4 ... wouldn't leave hom e without it

copies exact image of your hard drive files in DOS copies hd in under 20 minutes restoes it exactly within the same time frame

kbleft · Feb 28, 2003, 10:03 PM

I use drive image 2002, and I love it. I prefer it to ghost.

Vampyromaniac · Mar 5, 2003, 10:27 PM

All this talk of partitions, I'm now thinking of tinkering with my multi-boot . . .

-={420}=- · Mar 6, 2003, 09:21 PM

Maybe all u partition experts can tell me how to install Longhorn on a second hard drive with the least f**king around. I want to keep my windows xp on my first hard drive intact and also have a working longhorn on the other. dual-boot? Any suggestions as to how I would set this up?

Louie6666 · Mar 9, 2003, 03:37 PM

I haven't played with this build of Longhorn yet, but if its like the M3 Alpha Build, all you have to do is treat it like xp, boot off CD or choose full install if starting from within windows, when the install detects existing installation, select your 2nd HD or partition as the one you would like to install too, and when its done it will boot up with a boot menu now presenting you with your choice of OS's

Heres some reading for you

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...t/mltiboot.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q306559

OOoo just found this:

Quote:

Setup is fairly simplistic and plain at this juncture in Longhornâ€™s development (Figure). Similar to the installation of Windows XP (â€œXPâ€), the user has the choice between Express Upgrade, which preserves the current files and settings, and Advanced Install, which provides the user with several options: (1) clean install Longhorn and (2) install Longhorn on a different drive or partition. Interestingly, this early build only allows an Upgrade installation if the user is running Longhorn version 4000 or higher. Clearly, this will change.

from here:

http://www.ibelite.com/review2.php?a...content&rid=14

-={420}=- · Mar 9, 2003, 07:49 PM

Thanks a lot man.

-~~~~~

One of the Twelve · Mar 29, 2003, 05:10 PM

PowerQuest applications do not function with Server OS's... According to my experience, Acronis Partition Expert is excellent!

Impulse · Mar 30, 2003, 08:43 AM

I can understand how you like Partition Magic, but FDISK works for me...

-={420}=- · Mar 30, 2003, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Impulse
I can understand how you like Partition Magic, but FDISK works for me...

Yep, I was just gonna say that.

sonofacpu · May 16, 2003, 01:02 AM

I really like Partition Magic, its the best i`ve seen

tragic · May 16, 2003, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Oh, uh oops I replied to your Other thread asking for help . . .
Well glad you're on the right track, and YES PartitionMagic is a Wonderful app! Along with Ghost, 2 most essential disk gruntwork apps

No finer words said about those two beauties

River · May 17, 2003, 01:14 AM

with my PM & and Windows98 it was slick and easy, but I did run into a problem that took me a while before someone else told me of the fix.

the first time I wanted to do a reformat/clean reinstall after having PM7 loaded up, I had all kinds of problems with not being able to boot up Win98, and I had to take my computer in to Gateway and let them hook it up to their server and they would reformat and then dump my OS and other programs back on to my computer.

I was then told by another geeker that all I had to do was uninstall PM7 first, reformat, reinstall os and other files needed on C partition, then reinstall PM7 and I did with no problems.

Now I have PM8 and WinXP Pro and wonder if this is what is going to have to be done if I want a reformat/clean reinstall? don't want to risk not being able to fix the problem, not sure if WinXP could override the same type of problem that Win98 encountered with PM7?

any ideas?
thanxz
River~

brc64 · May 17, 2003, 03:18 AM

I like Partition Magic, but the last time I used it I think I made it do too many things at one time (resize three partitions then merge two more) and it locked up on like step 5 of 6.

I eventually got everything back to working, though. The only time I ever use Partition Magic is when I need to mess with partitioning but can't afford to lose data. Any other time I just use... whatever you want to call the program in Windows XP setup (is it actually fdisk they use there?)

- Me

tek · May 17, 2003, 03:20 AM

Ghost no workie for me.. it asks me for like 20 gigs of space for the img file.. I wus like NO!

Feb 28, 2003, 01:32 AM	#1
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Screw fdisk anymore...Partition Magic 8 Me finally decided to give it a go, and WOW! Talk about making a hard thing easy? I set-up me partitions without losing my operating system, and that was just poking around before I read the manual and such! I can't wait to see what other tricks this puppy has got, it's a sweet application. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

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Feb 28, 2003, 02:05 PM	Thread Starter #3
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Yeah, I got the drive squared away how I like very easily with it, it's definately been added to me arsenal of emergency utils. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Feb 28, 2003, 09:49 PM	#4
FuNsTeR Caledonian and Proud Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Darkest Ayrshire Posts: 1,305 Rep Power: 88 System Specs	Drive Image pro 4 ... wouldn't leave hom e without it copies exact image of your hard drive files in DOS copies hd in under 20 minutes restoes it exactly within the same time frame __________________ "They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages ..... but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows"

Mar 6, 2003, 09:21 PM	#7
-={420}=- DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,095 Rep Power: 0	Maybe all u partition experts can tell me how to install Longhorn on a second hard drive with the least fking around. I want to keep my windows xp on my first hard drive intact and also have a working longhorn on the other. dual-boot? Any suggestions as to how I would set this up? __________________ [COLOR=red]My eBay Auctions[/COLOR]**

Feb 28, 2003, 10:03 PM	#5
kbleft DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 88 Rep Power: 0	I use drive image 2002, and I love it. I prefer it to ghost.

Mar 5, 2003, 10:27 PM	#6
Vampyromaniac confutatis maledictis Join Date: May 2002 Location: somewhere dark Posts: 5,974 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	All this talk of partitions, I'm now thinking of tinkering with my multi-boot . . .

Mar 9, 2003, 07:49 PM	#9
-={420}=- DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,095 Rep Power: 0	Thanks a lot man. -~~~~~ __________________ [COLOR=red]My eBay Auctions[/COLOR]

Mar 29, 2003, 05:10 PM	#10
One of the Twelve DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Kold North Posts: 131 Rep Power: 0	PowerQuest applications do not function with Server OS's... According to my experience, Acronis Partition Expert is excellent! __________________

Mar 30, 2003, 08:43 AM	#11
Impulse l33t Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 248 Rep Power: 0	I can understand how you like Partition Magic, but FDISK works for me...

May 16, 2003, 01:02 AM	#13
sonofacpu The ONLY sonofacpu! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A motherboard in Santiago, Chile Posts: 111 Rep Power: 0	I really like Partition Magic, its the best i`ve seen __________________ My PC Specs: AMD Sempron 3100+ @ 1953 MHz,217FSB, MSI MS-6702 NEO, Corsair DDR400 512mb, Nvidia MSI Starforce fx5700 VTD 128MB, Seagate Barracuda 80GB IDE 7200RPM, BENQ CDRW 52x24x52x, LG 16X DVD, Generic 480W PSU,Realtek AC'97 Audio ______________________________________________ "My mother was a Motherboard, my father was a processor, the modem was my uncle, my grandfather was a hard disk, my grandmother was the RAM. What am I? I am THE sonofacpu!"

May 17, 2003, 01:14 AM	#15
River -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Salem, Oregon Posts: 174 Rep Power: 0	PM7 and now PM8 with my PM & and Windows98 it was slick and easy, but I did run into a problem that took me a while before someone else told me of the fix. the first time I wanted to do a reformat/clean reinstall after having PM7 loaded up, I had all kinds of problems with not being able to boot up Win98, and I had to take my computer in to Gateway and let them hook it up to their server and they would reformat and then dump my OS and other programs back on to my computer. I was then told by another geeker that all I had to do was uninstall PM7 first, reformat, reinstall os and other files needed on C partition, then reinstall PM7 and I did with no problems. Now I have PM8 and WinXP Pro and wonder if this is what is going to have to be done if I want a reformat/clean reinstall? don't want to risk not being able to fix the problem, not sure if WinXP could override the same type of problem that Win98 encountered with PM7? any ideas? thanxz River~

May 17, 2003, 03:18 AM	#16
brc64 Zeeky H. Bomb Join Date: May 2002 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 826 Rep Power: 0	I like Partition Magic, but the last time I used it I think I made it do too many things at one time (resize three partitions then merge two more) and it locked up on like step 5 of 6. I eventually got everything back to working, though. The only time I ever use Partition Magic is when I need to mess with partitioning but can't afford to lose data. Any other time I just use... whatever you want to call the program in Windows XP setup (is it actually fdisk they use there?) - Me

May 17, 2003, 03:20 AM	#17
tek DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Boston, US Posts: 2,103 Rep Power: 0	Ghost no workie for me.. it asks me for like 20 gigs of space for the img file.. I wus like NO! __________________ [COLOR=White][/COLOR]