Stay away from PM8, it's has so many bugs it is not
funny! Burnt me too
many times in past 2 years after loyally using for a
long time. These
days I use Acronis Disk Director.
All partitions should be byte for byte copyable with
True Image and the
MBR & partition tables are standard no matter how odd
the actual
partition is.
Ben Ruset wrote:
> Anyway, getting back to solving your question at
hand:
>
> I wonder if Ghost will let you dump the partition to
a file. Then you
> can look on Compaq's site and see if there are
utilities for creating
> the Compaq hidden partition.
>
> Blow away the drive, remake the hidden partition,
make your 30gb/10gb
> partitions, and re-ghost the parition onto the 30gb
partition. Ghost
> will handle the size difference for you.
>
> That is assuming, of course, that Ghost won't freak
out with the crazy
> partition.
>
> The other thing you could do is just buy another
40gb drive and use that
> for whatever your 10gb partition was going to be
for. Given how cheap
> disk is, I assume the low cost of the disk is worth
less than you losing
> data.
>
> Winterlight wrote:
>> I am working on Compaq EVO. It has a 40GB
DiamondMax hard drive and is
>> formatted as a single NTFS Primary Active
partition. No other
>> partition is showing. However I suspect there is a
small Compaq hidden
>> partition. Using Partition Magic 8 I can not resize
and add any
>> partitions. I want to resize the existing partition
to 30 GB and make
>> a FAT32 10GB Extended
>
>
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