On Sunday 12 October 2003 06:40 pm, robin wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > >On Sunday 12 October 2003 02:22 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > >>On Sunday 12 October 2003 07:44 am, John wrote: > >>>The newbie mail has provided a lot of info. for me over the last 2 > >>>months. Being new, there is a lot to learn even from the OT mail. > >>>Example: I have been trying to install md9.1 on a gateway 1450se with xp > >>> and phoenix bios. > >> > >>I used Partition Magic on a 450, which is essentially the same machine, I > >>think. Mine was pre-installed with W2K, though, and I did nuke the > >>pre-install and installed clean with our site-licensed W2K. I'm quad > >>booting this machine due to legacy programs that require DOS, some that > >> run in W98 but not W2K, and W2K for the rest of the stuff. My personal > >> partition boots Mandrake. I had problems with the PCMCIA controller and > >> the AMR modem--the modem is a lost cause. > > > >If you have to use one, Paragon Hard Drive Manager works much the same as > >Partition Magic, has all the same features, IIRC, and has the added > > benefit of supporting ReiserFS, HPFS, JFS, I think. I know for sure that > > is supports Reiser. Also, it has an executable that is installable under > > Linux that provides a lot of features, although not all as in Windows. > > Supports moving partitions entirely over to alternate drives, resizing > > partitions (Reiser included), etc. > > > >If you have to use a Windows partition manager, I would get that one over > >Partition Magic. > > What's wrong with the partitioning tool that comes with the Mandrake > installation program? I've used it several times and never lost data.
Note the "If you have to use a Windows partition manager" part of the phrase. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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