lbparis,

I would check into Partition Magic and see if that can straighten
things out.


Bruce Dayton



Friday, November 09, 2001, 12:21:09 PM, you wrote:

l> I'm a little frustrated here.  Dell shipped my system with a
l> 60GB hard drive but no partitioning.  They installed Ontrack
l> Disk Manager to handle the whole drive as a single partition.
l> Well, suffice it to say that I was dismayed to learn they had
l> used "Disk Mangler"!  It doesn't peacefully co-exist with some
l> of Systemworks utilities (like Disk Optimizer) and now I have to
l> face the task of removing it.  I did that several years ago and
l> it took some serious doing.

l> I want to partition the drive into at least five 10GB partitions
l> so I can run a multiple boot machine.  Now I'll have to
l> reinstall everything from scratch, as well as dispose of the
l> Ontrack boot sector from hell.  Otherwise, Partition Magic would
l> have been able to repartition the drive without losing anything.

l> I'm not a happy camper.  I'll probably be able to work it all
l> out but I know that sh-t happens and it will probably take a
l> long time to get things running right.

l> Len
l> -----


l> ----- Original Message -----
l> From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
l> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
l> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 9:04 AM
l> Subject: Re: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer
l> question...)


>> I got so frustrated yesterday that I broke down and got Norton
l> Systemworks.
>> After putting it through its paces, so far everything is
l> working normally.
>> Guess I had some conflicts somewhere that Systemworks was able
l> to resolve.
>> I also picked up some cheap memory chips at Best Buy (I know,
l> they may not
>> be great).  256Mb for $20.00 after a $10.00 rebate.  This
l> gives me a total
>> of 384Mb and Photoshop runs much faster than it did at 128Mb.
>>
>> Bill, KG4LOV
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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