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 diskette or CD rather than on
> a disk being modified, and there would have to be no activity on the disk being
> modified.
Resides in the Master Boot Record of primary HDD
> I sent this a few days ago, but it apparently vanished in the cyber ether when
> the Arachne list went down.
Things like that happen
> In that case, running from diskette or CD, one copy of Partition Magic would
> run on only one computer at a time, so there would be nothing illegal about
> running Partition Magic successively on several computers.
To operate correctly, PM *must* be installed on the computer.
> I have never used Partition Magic.
I haven't either ... yet. I have a friend who uses it routinely
for partition management but has not attempted multi-booting of any
sort. The multi-boot/OS capacity was an "add on" to PM a couple of
years back -- apparently because I wasn't the only one who didn't like
how System Commander behaved and didn't really offer true partition
resizing like PM does.
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