2010/3/6 Aitor Santamaría <aitor...@gmail.com>: > Apparently, the Norton guys were not going to continue with PQMagic > any longer, but this is great news!!
That was decided many years ago, I think, and it was a great shame. I used to like Symantec & its products but it has become one of those big companies that just buys smaller rivals to shut them down. If it at least released the "dead" products as FOSS, I wouldn't mind. (QEMM8, DESQview & DESQview/X in particular), but no, it just kills them. > I am particularly interested in moving/resizing. I don't know how > Windows manages partition internally, but it concerns me that, when > you are moving a partition, there could be other records within > Windows that would have to be updated (other than the partition table > itself). Have you ever tried moving partitions having Windows Vista or > Seven, and later booting, to see if they continue to boot/work after > this? I have, using GParted on Linux. No problems. If anything the newer versions seem to be considerably more robust than poor old XP. This may be because Vista /et seq/ *insist* on booting off NTFS - they will not install to FAT32. (They won't fit into a FAT16 volume!) I do miss the fairly simple & clear BOOT.INI file, tho'. The new bootloader is more resilient - e.g. it will survive an /older/ version of Windows being installed /after/ a newer one, which killed XP/W2K/NT every time. However, the new boot file structure, BCD, is a closed binary format which must be edited with special tools, such as EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 This is a complete pain. Also, Vista & Win7 automatically rename their boot partition as C: when they boot, regardless of where it is in the partition sequence, which screws up drive-letter allocation schemes. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
