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? 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.
> I sent this a few days ago, but it apparently vanished in the cyber ether when > the Arachne list went down. > 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. > I have never used Partition Magic. All this talk about "installing Partition Magic" has me baffled as-well. Partioning of an HDD simply consists of rewriting the partition table located at the beginning of the drive. Every version of DOS includes Fdisk.exe. Every version of Linux includes Fdisk. There are also many freely available (or shareware), "third party" disk partitioning programs. My question is simply this. What is it about "Partition Magic" which makes it more desirable than: Fdisk.exe (included with the version of DOS being used) Fdisk (included with the version of Linux being used) Or any of these??? http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/aefdsk17.zip http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/bing118.zip http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/edpart.zip http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/fips15.zip http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/partit10.zip http://ftp.in-span.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/partitn.zip -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
