Hello Peter, I'm not an expert but have had some experience with Partition Magic (older version) and it really isn't worth it.
Like you I liked to partition my physical drives and for good reasons (keep swap file all by itself, keep O/S, programs and data separate, etc). One possible reason the dealer recommends against partitioning is, that in the days of FAT16 partitions, partinioning was popular to minimize the ungodly amount of slack that FAT16 partitions generated. With NTFS, you have some overhead but no slack or very little to speak of. The dealer may feel there is no longer any advantage to partitioning (hey may not be aware that NTFS had been available before Win2000). Give some thought to investing in a second physical drive, doesn't have to be just as large as your current one, and investing in Norton Ghost. For one thing, you'll have the fastest and most reliable backups of your current partitions (Norton Ghost takes a little bit of learning to use it right, but it works great). At the very least you should be able to restore your partitions very quickly if/when you mess something up and it frees you to experiment a little more. hth On Saturday, July 26, 2003, 9:06:40 AM, you wrote: PK> Now with the Win2K the dealer suggested not to partition, but did not PK> explain why. I looked around and found basically 2 partition programs PK> the Partition Magic I used in the past, and another from Paragon: PK> Partition Manager. Neither is a shareware (only fully crippled demo-s PK> are available for download), the latter is somewhat cheaper than the former. PK> Martin Webster appears to be against partitioning, but I am not sure PK> is this against using Partition Magic or any partitioning? PK> Any expert or experienced users recommendation is welcomed before I PK> mess up the new computer. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
