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. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
