On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 02:29:45 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:13:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> <snip> >> 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 > I have found that with Partition Magic I can make another partition > on my drive, either for DOS or for Linux, without having to re-format > the whole thing and erase all the data that is already on it. I can't > do that with DOS FDISK. I never tried FDISK for Linux. I'm still to > much of a newbie to dare. You know what often happens when you try to > do something when you don't really understand what you are doing. I'm > sure you have had experiences like that : ((( FIPS can do that. 2 evenings ago I split a partition with fips.exe and then used restorrb.exe to put it all back the way it was. Oh yeah, FIPS includes the SRC code. :) Sorry Clarence... it's in C/C++ :( Yes, I have had experiences like that. :((( > There might be other products out there that work just as well or even > better than Partition Magic, but the word just hasn't gotten out, and > people are afraid to try something they never heard of. You know what > often happens when you dare to go where no man has ever gone before. > I'm sure you have had experiences like that : ((( Well, now "the word is out" on 6 more. ;-) Yep, I have been where no-one has been before. I like it there!!!<VBG> > This reminds me of the old joke about the party of hunters who > were gathered around the campfire while each in turn related to the > others the story about his second most painful experience : (((((( Yes.... None of them wanted to relate the story about the MOST painful one. ;-) -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
