It's useful for large disk sizes.... in our case dual 200 gig drives.

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:15:25 -0500, Simple Simon wrote:

Has anybody here used Partition Magic to set up partitions on an XP Home
machine so Win 98 can be installed on a separate partition resulting in
a
dual boot or multi-boot system? Did the software work as advertised?

I've heard good things about Partition Magic, but with XP it is not really
needed.


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../multiboot.asp

My dual booting experiences were with Linux/Windows, and not applicable to
your situation, but there are many in the Linux community that swear by
PM.

Spot on. I'd recommed Redhat linux for you.

Cheers MC

Simple Simon wrote:

Yes, three partitions is what I had in mind on my new laptop.
It has a 40 gig hard drive and I figured I'd go with 30 for
the main OS (winxp) and five each for win98 and linux.

Sound like a plan?

S.Simon

"two wheels" wrote in message ...

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While you're at it, you can set up a 5+ GB linux partition, in case you
ever want to experment with linux. If you decide not to use it for
linux, you can always reformat the extra disk for Windows later--use as
a storage disk.

two wheels


On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 18:15:25 -0500, "Simple Simon"
wrote:


Has anybody here used Partition Magic to set up
partitions on an XP Home machine so Win 98 can
be installed on a separate partition resulting in
a dual boot or multi-boot system? Did the software
work as advertised?

I have this nice little scanner called a Travel Scan
and the company that made it either went out of
business or the product was bought out by another
company. Unfortunately the software does not
load or work with XP and there will be no new
software produced for it. Rather than tossing the
scanner I was thinking instead of installing Win98
on another partition on my hard drive and loading
the scanner software there because it works just
great on the Win98 OS. Also, I have some other
legacy programs that aren't compatible with
WinXP that I would still like to use and I could
also load them on the Win98 partition.

I found a site where I can download Partition Magic
for 49.95. What do you think?

Ganz, do you have any multi-boot computers?

S.Simon


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Don't use Lilo use grub.

Cheers MC

Donal wrote:

"two wheels" wrote in message
...

I chose Red Hat, just because there's a lot of no-fuss (RPM format)
software out there for it. The hardest thing was finding a driver for
my Windows modem, but I finally found the modem driver for my
particular kernel--at the modem maker's web site.




Doesn't Linux come with the necessary stuff for partitioning the disk.

**NEAL** Linux includes a boot manager (Lilo) which allows you to choose
which operating system to load.

Regards


Donal
--

Can't you guys partition a friggin HD without a program??????

Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaa....

CM

The Captains Nemesis wrote in message
...
| On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 04:58:09 -0500, thunder
| wrote:
|
| On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:15:25 -0500, Simple Simon wrote:
|
| Has anybody here used Partition Magic to set up partitions on an XP
Home
| machine so Win 98 can be installed on a separate partition resulting in
a
| dual boot or multi-boot system? Did the software work as advertised?
|
| I've heard good things about Partition Magic, but with XP it is not
really
| needed.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...rted/multiboot
..asp
|
| My dual booting experiences were with Linux/Windows, and not applicable
to
| your situation, but there are many in the Linux community that swear by
PM.
|
| Yeah but once he's set up without partitioning, he then needs a
| program like PM to make the partition for the 2nd OS.
|
|
| Oz1...of the 3 twins.
|
| I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.
|
|

Capt. Mooron wrote:

Can't you guys partition a friggin HD without a program??????

Using a program is much easier than using an array of switches to fire
opcodes down the IDE cable...


--
Wally
www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com
Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light.

What do you use, a chisel?

Cheers MC

Capt. Mooron wrote:
Can't you guys partition a friggin HD without a program??????

Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaa....

CM

The Captains Nemesis wrote in message
...
| On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 04:58:09 -0500, thunder
| wrote:
|
| On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:15:25 -0500, Simple Simon wrote:
|
| Has anybody here used Partition Magic to set up partitions on an XP
Home
| machine so Win 98 can be installed on a separate partition resulting in
a
| dual boot or multi-boot system? Did the software work as advertised?
|
| I've heard good things about Partition Magic, but with XP it is not
really
| needed.
|
|

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...rted/multiboot

.asp
|
| My dual booting experiences were with Linux/Windows, and not applicable
to
| your situation, but there are many in the Linux community that swear by
PM.
|
| Yeah but once he's set up without partitioning, he then needs a
| program like PM to make the partition for the 2nd OS.
|
|
| Oz1...of the 3 twins.
|
| I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.
|
|

Damn... so used to the RAID system!

Win 98.... bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!

CM

The Captains Nemesis wrote in message
...
| On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:45:14 -0400, "Capt. Mooron"
| wrote:
|
| Can't you guys partition a friggin HD without a program??????
|
| Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaa....
|
| CM
|
| Sure, before setup.
| But after that nope.
|
|
| Oz1...of the 3 twins.
|
| I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.
|
|

Capt. Mooron wrote:


Can't you guys partition a friggin HD without a program??????


Using a program is much easier than using an array of switches to fire
opcodes down the IDE cable...

"The_navigator©" wrote in message
...
Don't use Lilo use grub.

I don't know about grub. Lilo has worked flawlessly for the last 8 years.


Regards


Donal
--

I'm certainly glad I didn't waste my money on
a retail box of PartitionMagic.

I downloaded it and BootMagic from the fosi
site and it is the latest version (8) but it would not
work. I've tried it three or four times and as far
as I can tell I'm doing everything right but when
I resize the existing partition and create another
smaller FAT32 partition for Win98 and reboot
to finish the job PartitionMagic comes on and does
a few things then it starts giving error messages
until it says too many errors - aborting partitioning.

I've checked the hard drive. It's new and less than
a month old and has no errors on it according to
chkdsk.exe, it has no bad sectors or anything.
It's good. I've done a little reading on some of
the tech groups and there's letters to the effect
that HP does something to their disks when they
are imaged that prevents partitioning. What a drag!

I might just have save all my date, reformat, do an
fdisk and set up the partitions that way if I can't
find out why PM can't do the job.

S.Simon




"Simple Simon" wrote in message ...
Has anybody here used Partition Magic to set up
partitions on an XP Home machine so Win 98 can
be installed on a separate partition resulting in
a dual boot or multi-boot system? Did the software
work as advertised?

I have this nice little scanner called a Travel Scan
and the company that made it either went out of
business or the product was bought out by another
company. Unfortunately the software does not
load or work with XP and there will be no new
software produced for it. Rather than tossing the
scanner I was thinking instead of installing Win98
on another partition on my hard drive and loading
the scanner software there because it works just
great on the Win98 OS. Also, I have some other
legacy programs that aren't compatible with
WinXP that I would still like to use and I could
also load them on the Win98 partition.

I found a site where I can download Partition Magic
for 49.95. What do you think?

Ganz, do you have any multi-boot computers?

S.Simon