Disk Partition

[jimbo]

I think Partition Magic will resize a partition and create a new
partition on the freed up space without causing any loss of data.
My first hard drive has one partition, "C" with Win98se installed. The
second hard drive has one partition, "D" with WinXP installed. And I
have a CD, "E".

If I resize my "C" partition and then create a second partition on
that hard drive, will it become "D" and everything else be renamed, or
will it be created as "F", or is it my choice? What complications
would this cause?

Thanks, jimbo

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi jimbo,

If the XP partition on the second hard drive is a Primary partition, then
the second partition on the first hard drive would be created as E, changing
your CDROM drive letter to F. There is a drive mapper utility included in
Partition Magic that you can run in which you specify what a drive letter
used to be and what the drive letter is at present. It will make the
appropriate changes in the Windows registry, so that references to a
previous drive letter will now contain the new drive letter.



Regards,

 

[Guest]

You should be running xp as C: drive,its the default letter.
You must be installing windows with both hds connected in the
IDE chains,disconect all but hd for xp,let it set as C:.Partition magic
might try such a change but its not the right way to go,reinstall xp,
repartition before installation.

 

[jimbo]

Hi Patty,

Thanks for your reply. Now I have a second question. I want to install
Knoppix Linux on the second partition on "C". Partition Magic warns
about the first partition "crossing" a 1024 boundary. Do you know if
Linux will boot from a partition that starts at 30 GB of a 40 GB hard
drive?

Thanks, jimbo

 

[Patti MacLeod]

You're welcome for the reply

I have had no experience with Knoppix Linux, so I don't know if it will boot
from a partition that starts at 30GB of a 40GB drive. I know that I have
installed multiple operating systems on one hard drive, using Boot Magic as
boot manager, and had no problems booting into the partitions that crossed
the 1024 boundary (so I do know well of the warning that you received).
Whether this will work out with the boot manager that you will be using, I
don't know.

I did experiment a bit with Linux Mandrake a few years ago, and was using
Boot Magic as a boot manager at that time also (as I also had two WIN9x
systems installed on that drive). I do recall that, during the Linux
install, I had to ensure that LILO was written to the root sector and not
the boot sector.

Sorry I can't be of much further help.



Regards,