John Lewis <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>> Terry Pinnell <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>>> I bought Partition Magic 7.0 a year or so ago, and
>>> set up 2 partitions on each of my two identical HDs.
>>> C: 11.7 GB 0.6 free (Main XP Home System)
>>> D: 44.1 GB 28.4 free (Data)
>>> E: 11.7 GB 4.6 free (Old XP Home system for emergency)
>>> F: 44.1 GB 8.5 free (Backups)
>>> My initial judgement was plainly a bit poor, so now I'd like to
>>> resize, increasing C (and probably E for symmetry) and reducing D.
>>> Will I find this straightforward please?
>> You may well find that it bites you on the arse.
>>> Any snags to watch out for?
>> Yep, you MUST make a full image of the entire drive BEFORE you
>> attempt to do that. PM can bugger up the entire drive in the process.
>> If you arent prepared to do that for some reason, at least backup
>> all the stuff you will slash your wrists if you lose to more than one
>> CDR even if you have to buy a CD burner to do that. Then at least
>> if the brown stuff hits the fan rather spectacularly, as it often does
>> with PM being used for that sort of thing, the worst you are up for
>> is a very laborious completely clean reinstall etc.
> funny thing.................
Nope, nothing surprising about it at all.
> I have used PM V4 thru V8 for regularly generating/resizing
> hard-disk partitions and have NEVER "buggered" up a disk
> or lost a partition.
Even you should be able to use groups.google
and find examples of it doing that.
> It is absolutely essential to run ScanDisk on all disk
> partitions BEFORE playing around with re-sizing partitions.
If its that crucial, Powerquest should have PM do
that before attempting to adjust the partition sizes.
> Also using the full surface check in
> ScanDisk is highly recommended.
Ditto.
> And, if your disk has shown signs of any disk-flakiness
> in the past, do not attempt a re-partition. Better go buy
> a bigger disk and use PM to copy the partitions to
> it, while resizing them at the same time..
> The very safest way of doing the actual re-size
> exercise is by executing the changes after booting
> your PC into Partition Magic with the Partition Magic
> rescue floppy disks.... just in case there is any problem
> (virus etc) in the XP operating system software.
The very safest way is to have a full image of the entire
physical drive that can be used if the brown stuff hits the fan.
> It will be a little slower than using the OS,
> since disk-acceleration is not available.
> By the way, there is an update to PM 7.01 on the Powerquest
> web-site. Download and install it, then create the 2 rescue
> floppies using the approprite selection under "Partition Magic
> 7.0 Tools". The update deals with issues other than re-sizing
> FAT partitions, but better be safe than sorry..........
True in spades of a full image of the entire physical
drive that can be used if the brown stuff hits the fan.
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