On 22 Apr 2006 at 12:35, Gary Funck wrote: > BTW, I've been burned so badly by Partition Magic(tm) and > I think that my success rate with those products is about 1 out of 3. > And when they break, Bad Things Happen to your data.
Always interesting to hear peoples differing experiences. I've been using PM since version 2.xx and can count on one hand the number of times it hosed things, half of those were avoidable. I've used PM literaly hundreds of times over the years. I've since switched to Acronis' Partition Manager as part of their Disk Director Suite, cheaper than PM, more features, works faster and also works on server OS partitions like Win2k3 unlike PM which requires you to purchase the significantly more expensive version known as server magic. Another (dis)advantage to Acronis is that it is linux based. This is good because it can ignore the bios drive geometry and talk to drives larger than the bios supports. The bad side has been spotty firewire support as the linux kernel has evolved. > I don't recall exactly, but maybe Ghost can do the copy-and-change > size of partition thing. Ghost has changed over the years so much Yes it can > and has so many options it is diffcult to keep track. Of course, > when you copy-and-change, you need to copy from your old drive to > a new one, but that's good practice anyway. > Note that if you copy your Windows (XP) boot partition from one drive > to another, there's some tricks to keep it from getting grumpy about > having been moved to a new drive. I don't recall the specifics, but > there are various how to's on the web. Depends on the cloning tool used, Ghost usually handles this tranparently. If it doesn't, you just need to use the clone boot option. This is particularly useful if you are doing the cloning on a different machine that has a bios that uses different disk geometry translation. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
