Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:08:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: parv@pair.com (Parv) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop questions Message-ID: <200509121308.j8CD86Zx028640@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050912082116.GD85219@holestein.holy.cow>
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> > in message <200509112357.j8BNvDo0026898@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, wrote > Jerry McAllister thusly... > > > > I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to > > manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. > > Same here. > > > > Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are > > booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To > > work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you > > must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic > > documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice > > manipulation. > > Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while Partition Magic 6.x > was running on MS Windows (XP, and probably Me, don't remember about > 98), w/o use of floppies or CDs. I could do some things, but not what I needed. Using the floppies made it all work and it was quite straightforward. I was changing slice sizes (shrinking) and slice types. So, ??? ////jerry > > - Parv
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