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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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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 haven't used it with XP, but it has always worked well when I have used it. -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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Downloading as I peck away here.
You're a liberal but one fine liberal. Thanks, S.Simon The Captains Nemesis wrote in message ... 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? Yep, Works very well. Go here to get ver 8 free http://fosi.ural.net/ There are no viruses. 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. Yep, I have an HPScanjet5P for which HP in their wisdom has not developed drivers for XP however generic XP drivers will still work in the Windows Scan/Fax application. have you tried that? 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 Oz1...of the 3 twins. I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you. |
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I have used System Commander for several years to switch between operating
systems.. Wasn't there an exchange of ownership, a buy out or stock swap or some such, between these two companies? Partition Magic only did partitions at one time. Then System Commander added limited partition resizing. I don't remember what happened after that. Maybe I resized a partition... Steve Thomas "Wally" wrote in message ... 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 haven't used it with XP, but it has always worked well when I have used it. -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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Yes. Works as advertised.
"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 |
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Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQA/AwUBP6WjW9CBA23eyf45EQKH/gCeNMhOW8vCnm896cDKwhqXes4D7LoAni64 YdwbP9vrvpuLGLm0T0PEllj9 =LPS+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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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 ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQA/AwUBP6WjW9CBA23eyf45EQKH/gCeNMhOW8vCnm896cDKwhqXes4D7LoAni64 YdwbP9vrvpuLGLm0T0PEllj9 =LPS+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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Hash: SHA1 If you don't have linux CDs yet, try http://www.linuxcentral.com/ That's where I got my Linux 9 (Red Hat) CDs. The price now: $3 They also have Mandrake Linux 9.2 for $7 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. two wheels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQA/AwUBP6W1AdCBA23eyf45EQKb+gCg49Pc/SqwOUlaM1epBMlwr8KMLj0AoIXn kYTRTXfacGGJy/lKyPz+tU0q =zF3a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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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. |
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"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 -- |
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It's useful for large disk sizes.... in our case dual 200 gig drives.
"thunder" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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 ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQA/AwUBP6WjW9CBA23eyf45EQKH/gCeNMhOW8vCnm896cDKwhqXes4D7LoAni64 YdwbP9vrvpuLGLm0T0PEllj9 =LPS+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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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 -- |
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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. | | |
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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. |
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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. | | |
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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... |
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"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 -- |
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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 |
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Simple Simon wrote:
... 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. What error messages does it give? 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. See if you can find out what HP do to their disks - if it's reversible, it'll save a lot of hassle. -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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Try it, you'll like it.
Cheers MC Donal wrote: "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 -- |
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Use Linux.
Cheers MC Simple Simon wrote: 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 |
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Simple Simon wrote:
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! Might be something like... http://www.interex.org/hpworldnews/hpw203/06news.html ....which says... -------------------- HP still bundles recovery software, but instead of burning it on a CD-ROM, the company places the files on dedicated partitions of the computers' hard disks. The recovery software takes up seven CD-ROMs or nearly 4.5 gigabytes of space on Pavilion hard drives. The partition is hidden and write-protected so the consumer cannot accidentally erase it. -------------------- -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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I was suspecting something like that.... not really up on pavilion hds.
"Wally" wrote in message ... Simple Simon wrote: 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! Might be something like... http://www.interex.org/hpworldnews/hpw203/06news.html ...which says... -------------------- HP still bundles recovery software, but instead of burning it on a CD-ROM, the company places the files on dedicated partitions of the computers' hard disks. The recovery software takes up seven CD-ROMs or nearly 4.5 gigabytes of space on Pavilion hard drives. The partition is hidden and write-protected so the consumer cannot accidentally erase it. -------------------- -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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