Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:21:16 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop questions Message-ID: <20050912082116.GD85219@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <200509112357.j8BNvDo0026898@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20050911195615.GC54251@keyslapper.net> <200509112357.j8BNvDo0026898@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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in message <200509112357.j8BNvDo0026898@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, wrote Jerry McAllister thusly... > > I have had good success using Partition Magic from PowerQuest to > manipulate disk slices including NTFS types. Same here. > Unless you are working on a separate disk from the one you are > booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To > work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you > must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic > documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice > manipulation. Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while Partition Magic 6.x was running on MS Windows (XP, and probably Me, don't remember about 98), w/o use of floppies or CDs. - Parv --
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