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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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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