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Yes, that's what he means.
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I guess I'm going to have to download the program on one of the other four computers in my house and make the diskettes through there. I can do that, right? No members have liked this post.
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Yes you can, but it won't contain the boot/partition information that is on your HD that you may want to recover. I don't know exactly what the rescue disk looks for when booting. Best thing to do, if possible, is to install a floppy drive now. It'll make things a lot easier if you need it later.
Are you absolutely sure Partition Magic won't allow you to make a rescue CD? I'm thinking that when it asks you if you want to make one or not, that you can answer "yes" and then it'll ask you to navigate to the drive before it saves the rescue data. A lot of computers are being made now, without floppy drives. I'm assuming you have a newer version of PM. A lot of newer programs are taking into account the fact that floppy drives may not be present and are giving the opportunity to make bootable rescue CDs instead. You might want to check again to be sure and to save yourself a lot of trouble down the road. EDIT: Some programs make a "rescue disk" that is simply a boot floppy that you boot from so that you can run their software from the command line to use that particular program. In other words, it is not proprietary to that program. I'm not sure if PM does this or not. No members have liked this post.
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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...ic&svy=&csm=no Note the frequent warnings. No members have liked this post.
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Drive "F" doesn't even exist! No members have liked this post.
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Pete: Why are you using Partition Magic in the first place?
I've dabbled with it but for have never really found much utility in using it. I just partition my drives with XP, format them, and live with it. Just curious I suppose... No members have liked this post.
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Pete - Try inserting a disk and browsing to your burner. See if it'll make the CD.
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I don't use my main drive for anything, and it's got 70GB of free space. I'd much rather leave 15GB for the main drive, and create a new partition for some extra storage, since the 160GB is getting a little full. Plus, it looks prettier. No members have liked this post.
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And, to the best of my knowledge, the swap file doesn't get fragmented. Do the Defrag analysis on the drive where your swap file is. See that green patch? That's your swap file. No members have liked this post.
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I didn't think Partition Magic was going to be such a pain in the dick. No members have liked this post.
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Pete - looks like you're out of luck on the CD too. If the only reason you want to partition is to make it look "pretty", I can understand that, but it's really not worth the possible troubles. Don't get me wrong. Partitions are not trouble in and of themselves. It's when you have a problem with one (or more) partitions, that you begin to see where the trouble lies. For one, it's harder to recover data from a bad partition than it is from a single partitioned drive. You can think of a drive that has more than one partition as having more "parts". The more parts you have in something, the more than "can" go wrong with it (but not necessarily will).
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As for the swap file, true - it doesn't get fragmented, but try telling that to the many people who've argued with me that it does. I just concede and give them that "fact" At risk of a long debate (that I will not participate in again) - Long story short, no matter how many partitions you have and no matter whether the OS is on it's own partition or not, the arm of the HD has to cover the same ground to store/retrieve data. It doesn't look at which partition it's on. Partitions are only known to the software. In fact, in many instances, the arm has to cover MORE ground to go back and forth between the OS's partition and any of the others, depending on where they physically are located on the HD. Fragmentation occurs at the same rate on many partitions as it does on one. No members have liked this post.
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