On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Pawel Wojcik wrote:

> Is it safe to shrink M$ XP partition using Symantc's Partition Magic?
> I got the laptop with XP pre-installed and want to make room on the disk
> for Solaris and Fedora. There are many references on Internet to
> Partition Magic as THE tool to resize the disk partition where XP
> resides, but there are also not so good remarks about the quality of
> this operation.

It should be.

Partition Magic (8.0) that I've tried doesn't work on any of the Vista 
systems, and those require some other utility on Vista which is included. 
I have never had a system with Vista though.

XP should be fine with Partition Magic.

> Although I have recovery disks (just in case...) I wouldn't like to go
> through the restore process (if something goes wrong), just to start
> everything from scratch again.
> Any advice (tested)?

What type of system is it? Is it a laptop?

I would use Partition Magic if it has XP on it.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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