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Old 2005-07-20, 10:41 PM
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Partition Magic

Does anyone have any experience with this program? I just realized I don't have a floppy disk drive in my computer, and the program urged me to make "rescue" diskettes, but am I going to even need them?

Has anyone had to use the diskettes?
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Old 2005-07-20, 11:55 PM
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Re: Partition Magic

i have used it several times and always skipped the rescue disc thing....
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Old 2005-07-21, 01:31 AM
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Re: Partition Magic

i used swiss knife??? it wwas free and small and it worked... just be carefull if your new to that...I just partitioned myself out of an operating system a few months ago..lmao thinking about it...
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Old 2005-07-21, 06:42 AM
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Re: Partition Magic

I've used it and always skipped the rescue discs as well. They're unnecessary in my opinion.
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Old 2005-07-21, 10:35 AM
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Re: Partition Magic

Thanks!

I think I'll be trying it out later tonight. I'll let everyone know how it goes.
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Old 2005-07-21, 11:05 AM
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Re: Partition Magic

See if you can burn a rescue CD. If your system becomes unbootable for some reason (it happens), I'd imagine the rescure disk is what you need to be able to recover any/all partitions you may have. I never used the program, but it makes sense to me that that is what its for - otherwise, why would they suggest you make them?

It may be true that most people never need it, but IF you do, you'll be glad you have one
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Old 2005-07-21, 12:15 PM
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Re: Partition Magic

someone was asking around here earlier if you can mesh two physically different drives together.......can you?
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Old 2005-07-21, 12:58 PM
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Re: Partition Magic

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See if you can burn a rescue CD. If your system becomes unbootable for some reason (it happens), I'd imagine the rescure disk is what you need to be able to recover any/all partitions you may have. I never used the program, but it makes sense to me that that is what its for - otherwise, why would they suggest you make them?

It may be true that most people never need it, but IF you do, you'll be glad you have one
I already thought of that, I have to use a diskette.
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Old 2005-07-21, 12:59 PM
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Re: Partition Magic

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someone was asking around here earlier if you can mesh two physically different drives together.......can you?
Well, It says I can merge partitions. I was thinking of splitting the drive I don't use, and then merging that partiton with the drive I use for storage and see what happens, but I won't do that unless I have the rescue diskettes.
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Old 2005-07-21, 01:44 PM
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Well, It says I can merge partitions. I was thinking of splitting the drive I don't use, and then merging that partiton with the drive I use for storage and see what happens, but I won't do that unless I have the rescue diskettes.
Do you mean that Partition Magic will allow you to merge a partition from one HD with a partition from another HD?
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Old 2005-07-21, 01:50 PM
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Re: Partition Magic

No, Partition Magic only merges logical partitions on the same physical drive.
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Old 2005-07-21, 01:52 PM
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That's what I thought. Thanks. Like I said, I've never used it and thought that maybe something new was possible.
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Old 2005-07-21, 01:53 PM
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Do you mean that Partition Magic will allow you to merge a partition from one HD with a partition from another HD?
edit: nevermind
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Old 2005-07-21, 01:55 PM
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Re: Partition Magic

Thanks pete's montreux

EDIT: nevermind too

(I saw the image. Thanks for posting it )
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Old 2005-07-21, 01:55 PM
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Re: Partition Magic

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No, Partition Magic only merges logical partitions on the same physical drive.
So that means, If I split a partition on [for example] the "C" drive into A and B, I could only merge partitions A and B back together, and not merge partition B with my storage drive?

Like this:

A + B = good

A or B + storage = bad
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