Vista and Partition Magic 8

[Guest]

Hi all,

I have a Toshiba A135-S4427 Notebook that came preinstalled with Vista Home
Premium.
I want to use Partition Magic ver-8 to repartition the HDD into 3 total
partitions,
in other words - I want to creat 2 additional partitions.

I read on another board the following:
....Vista has a different NTFS than XP. It is a known issue that formatting a
drive/partition with Vista installed with a 3rd-party partitioning
application will be sure to create problems, again due to the different NTFS
format, since there are currently no compatible partitioning applications out
that work with Vista.

If I can get Partition Magic 8 to JUST create the partitions but NOT format
them, will Vista's disk management format them correctly to the right NTFS
for Vista?

Thanks a bunch.
Cin

 

[Guest]

I believe that NTFS is NTFS. I am running three operating systems on three
NTFS partitions on my laptop. I created and formatted all partitions using
PM8. The most recently installed OS was Vista Ultimate x64. I don't think PM
will install on Vista but creating the partitions should not be a problem.

 

[John Barnes]

Many have had problems with partitions formatted with PM8. You should not
have any problems if you do as you suggested. Create the partition with PM8
and format with Vista, but why not just leave freespace and create and
format the partition with Vista. Incidentally Vista only does a quick
format and there is a newer version of NTFS as you read. Under no
circumstances do any partition manipulation on the Vista partition with PM8
after you format it with Vista.

 

[Michal Kawecki]

Do not make logical drives on extended partition with Vista diskmanager.
Those will be incorrectly created.

More about this problem:
http://www.dcr.net/~w-clayton/Vista/DisappearingPartitions/DisappearingPartitions.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931854

 

[David Morgan \(MAMS\)]

Do not make logical drives on extended partition with Vista diskmanager.
Those will be incorrectly created.

More about this problem:
http://www.dcr.net/~w-clayton/Vista/DisappearingPartitions/DisappearingPartitions.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931854

This is stupid. Plain and simple, it's STUPID.

 

[kirk jim]

partition magic does not totally support vista...

paragon is compatible though...

Paragon Partition Manager Professional.v8.5

 

[Alpha]

Hi all,

I have a Toshiba A135-S4427 Notebook that came preinstalled with Vista
Home
Premium.
I want to use Partition Magic ver-8 to repartition the HDD into 3 total
partitions,
in other words - I want to creat 2 additional partitions.

I read on another board the following:
...Vista has a different NTFS than XP. It is a known issue that formatting
a
drive/partition with Vista installed with a 3rd-party partitioning
application will be sure to create problems, again due to the different
NTFS
format, since there are currently no compatible partitioning applications
out
that work with Vista.

If I can get Partition Magic 8 to JUST create the partitions but NOT
format
them, will Vista's disk management format them correctly to the right NTFS
for Vista?

Thanks a bunch.
Cin

Also, the latest version of Acronis Disk Director 10 works in Vista.

 

[John Barnes]

As does BootItNG

Also, the latest version of Acronis Disk Director 10 works in Vista.

 

[Michal Kawecki]

Hi all, [...]
If I can get Partition Magic 8 to JUST create the partitions but NOT
format
them, will Vista's disk management format them correctly to the right
NTFS
for Vista?

Thanks a bunch.
Cin

Also, the latest version of Acronis Disk Director 10 works in Vista.

Recently I had a big problem with uninstallation of Acronis Disk
Director Server 10 in Vista Ultimate 32 bit. Unfortunately Acronis
uninstaller do not removed automatically 'snapman' value from
UpperFilters in {71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F} and
{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} keys in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class. And at the
next boot system stopped with error STOP 0x0000007b. Fortunately I had a
good restore point. So, be warned.

 

[andy]

The problem with Partition Magic is it does not recognize as valid any
partition (whether formatted or not) that is created by Vista setup,
so Partition Magic won't be able to do anything on such a disk, other
than offering to "fix" it.

 

[John Barnes]

And from many prior reports, if you allow it to fix it, you lose the
partition and have to reinstall.