Partitions

[Dewey]

Hi,

I need to expand the primary portition on my harddrive. I have a Dell
Latitude, Win2k SP4, and a 4OGB hdd. I have Partition Magic 8 but not
installed yet. My question is this: after I change the partition, I do I
need to keep PM8 installed or will windows be able to manage the partition
from then on? I should say that I currently have 3 formatted partitions &
15GB of unallocated space. Any advice/info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[JB]

Use PM8 and leave it installed. Windows won't manage partitions other than
fdisk.

 

[ByTor]

Hi,

I need to expand the primary portition on my harddrive. I have a Dell
Latitude, Win2k SP4, and a 4OGB hdd. I have Partition Magic 8 but not
installed yet. My question is this: after I change the partition, I do I
need to keep PM8 installed or will windows be able to manage the partition
from then on? I should say that I currently have 3 formatted partitions &
15GB of unallocated space. Any advice/info would be greatly appreciated.

Actually if you have the CD of PM8 it should be bootable, no need to
install.
But to answer your overall question, NO, you don't need to leave it
installed.........You can even create the floppies during install & save
for later use.
There really is no harm in leaving it installed anyway.
Just be careful how you shift the partitions around. I don't know how
your 3PT's are setup and where your Unallocated space is but the
"redistribute free space" option should work for ya.......

Have fun.

 

[George Hester]

Just don't do any partituioning using the Windows GUI. It really doesn't matter PM 8 will jump out of
Windows into a DOS session at reboot. But then why do that? Install PM8; make the emergency
floppies; use those for all your partitioning needs. As for uninstalling PM 8 it is your call. It doesn't
matter either way. It's just that after you make the floppies it's pretty useless. IMHO.

Remember if you have partition problems (great liklihood using the GUI) PowerQuest no longer exists.
Now you got Norton and I can tell you you will never get any substantial help from them.

 

[Dewey]

Just don't do any partituioning using the Windows GUI. It really

doesn't matter PM 8 will jump out of

Windows into a DOS session at reboot. But then why do that? Install PM8; make the emergency
floppies; use those for all your partitioning needs. As for

uninstalling PM 8 it is your call. It doesn't

matter either way. It's just that after you make the floppies it's pretty useless. IMHO.

Remember if you have partition problems (great liklihood using the

GUI) PowerQuest no longer exists.

Now you got Norton and I can tell you you will never get any substantial help from them.

Hi George,

I appreciate your taking time to respond. I've taken your advice on
servicepackfiles to heart. Here's my situation: my original laptop hdd
fried and Dell gave me a replacement. I installed Win2k fresh in a 8GB
partition. Then I created 2 more partitions: 4GB and 10 GB, leaving 16
GB free space (all roughly). I assume that the three partitions are
contiguous with the free space at the end of the drive. The 10 GB
partition is a scratch partition I use for things like Photoshop
scratch and I store a copy of most recent Norton Ghost backup of
primary partition there for emergencies. I can delete it if need be.
The second partition has all my work-related stuff, my outlook.pst and
"my documents." I could Ghost it (and probably will just to be safe)
before repartitioning. With all that said, if I want to expand the c:
drive by 50% (to 12 GB), what is the best way to go about this? Ghost
it, repartition with PM8 and then have the Ghost just in case? Will PM8
be able to move my d: drive so that the expanded c: drive is
contiguous? Does it even need to be contiguous? And what is wrong with
using the GUI? I thought that worked like Ghost, where it just sets up
a script which is not executed until you reboot into dos. Is that
wrong?

Thanks again for your help.

 

[George Hester]

Well remember Dewey there is no DOS in Windows 2000. There is an emulator so that being said
would you trust PM to use a DOS on your machine that only exists as a Windows component? I
wouldn't. Cruising for a bruiser there. That's why you don't want to use the GUI. It pops out of
Windows into a DOS session at boot which the Op Sys cannot provide. PM actually has its own DOS
which is what you get with the Emergency Disks. Let that do DOS. They're made for it.

As for your partitioning. One thing about Outlook pst they should be in:

C:\Documents and Settings\%profile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

No where else of course assuming %windir%=C:\WINNT and %profile% is who you logged into
Windows 2000 as.

You can expand your C partition to as much available unformatted space that you have that is
contiguous to it. I have never once had any problems doing this with the Emergency disks. With the
GUI yes PROBLEMS and the fix was a call to PowerQuest. Do not expect that from Norton sorry Symantec. Will never happen.

Well if you don't have free space next to C you can shift all the partitions up so that you are left with
unformatted space next to C. I am assuming you have Windows 2000 installed on C. In any case you
have to manipulate the partitions to get free space next to C so you can enlarge it.

As for the backups. Well here is where I'll get into trouble. If you use the floppies there is no need to.
If you use the GUI hands up I give up. You can check the partition before you work on it in PM. That
helps. But the issue here is do you have anything that might interfere with the process? Windows XP in
the same system?-maybe. PM 8 with fix was supposed to fix that but I wouldn't trust them Windows
2000 Server in the System?- Use PM 5. Other than that PM is a rock-solid application (used from the
floppies) make the backups if you want and you'll just have to increase the stuff you dust off in the
Spring. No biggie.