Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Santiago Almenara
Karen: Why not use GParted? It's free. Santiago On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-10-04 23:49 (GMT-0400) Karen Lewellen composed: I realize I tend to wonder through the room and then find my corner again smiles. Anyway, I am wondering if

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Bret Johnson
I personally use Ranish Partition Manager most of the time: http://www.ranish.com/part It's not been updated in a long time, but it's always worked well for me -- much better than FDISK. -- Don't let slow site

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Carl Spitzer
I think the latest version in my toolkit is 7.0 but I also use gparted which is a bootable Linux distro which in look and feel does the same thing only much faster. A whole 160 gig drive was done in 30 minutes including time to decide how to break it up. CWSIV On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 23:49 -0400,

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread userbeitrag
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone? Date:Friday, 05. October 2012 From:Santiago Almenara almen...@gmail.com To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. freedos- u...@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:53

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread john s wolter
Yet another is System Rescue at http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage . It's a LINUX based LiveCD that has an amazing number of utilities. It includes some of the previously mentioned programs and has documentation. It also has an X-Windows GUI interface which you start using by

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Karen Lewellen
hi Felix, was that a typo below, as in 2 tb? Indeed Dr dos does have an approximately 2 gb limit for the primary dos partition. this dell laptop has a disk size of about 8 gig, so we partitioned the rest into amounts smaller than 3 gig, since my best understanding is that it can swing 4 gig.

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 02:09 PM 10/5/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: Yes I do realize partition magic is still legal, but not so sure about its availability free for dos, because its new owners state as of July 2011 they are no longer offering partition magic at all. That doesn't matter at all. It's still copyrighted