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>I'm looking for a partition manager
>which supports extended partitions (not
>PM). Know any?

Don't all partition managers support extended partitions? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't extended partitions simply non-bootable partitions? Furthermore they aren't the individual small non-bootable partitions, but the whole chunk of space that is not bootable.

FDisk support them, so does any other type of partitioner. I'd say stick with Partition Magic, as it is the best I've seen.

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>Don't all partition managers support extended
>partitions?
Well, fips doesn't, and what do you mean by all? I've only seen 3 non-destructive ones for now (fips, PM, DiskDrake). What others do you know?

>Correct me if
>I'm wrong, but aren't extended
>partitions simply non-bootable partitions?
I may be wrong, but I think no.

>FDisk support them, so does any
>other type of partitioner.
Uh, I think that was my mistake, I forget to say that I need a non-destructive one.

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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Dec-06-00 AT 06:38PM (GMT)[p]The bad thing is that I don't have it and I don't wanna bother to download. :(

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Partition Manager...

What the heck does that oh-mighty PM have that is making everyone talk about it?

I mean... There is no magic on partitioning a hard disk! It's just dividing a HD in several parts!


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RE: Partition Manager...

>What the heck does that oh-mighty
>PM have that is making
>everyone talk about it?
>
>I mean... There is no magic
>on partitioning a hard disk!
>It's just dividing a HD
>in several parts!

It was the first partitioning utility to repartition a hard drive without destroying the data inside the partitions. With Fdisk, the drive's contents were deleted when you repartitioned. With Partion magic you can move your partitions, create new ones, combine partitions, delete old ones, or squeeze them between others and not lose your data.

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RE: Partition Manager...

Well, FDisk can be very handy sometimes. A friend of mine got a virus wich destroyed his winsock. And just re-installing Windows didn't work because he had a compressed disk installed (Windows crashed at the "detecting hardware" part). So he tried to format his harddrive, but that didn't work either, because he had to "disconnect" his compressed drive first.
So I took FDisk, created a small partition, and that compressed disk was gone (wich was exactly what he wanted).

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RE: Partition Manager...

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Dec-07-00 AT 02:39PM (GMT)[p]>>What the heck does that oh-mighty
>>PM have that is making
>>everyone talk about it?
>>
>>I mean... There is no magic
>>on partitioning a hard disk!
>>It's just dividing a HD
>>in several parts!
>
>It was the first partitioning utility
>to repartition a hard drive
>without destroying the data inside
>the partitions. With Fdisk,
>the drive's contents were deleted
>when you repartitioned. With
>Partion magic you can move
>your partitions, create new ones,
>combine partitions, delete old ones,
>or squeeze them between others
>and not lose your data.
>

Nifty feature... I think it could come handy sometime. *checks PM's website...* What?! $70??? Hahahah.......
I just don't think it's great stuff (not thaaat useful), but that is my humble opinion ;)


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RE: Partition Manager...

>Nifty feature... I think it could
>come handy sometime. *checks PM's
>website...* What?! $70??? Hahahah.......
>I just don't think it's great
>stuff (not thaaat useful), but
>that is my humble opinion
>;)

For the time and headache it saves it's probably worth it. Think about it: To resize a partition using traditional methods would require deleting *both* partitions, resizing both, and then formatting them for the correct file system.

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>Well, FDisk can be very handy
>sometimes. A friend of mine
>got a virus wich destroyed
>his winsock. And just re-installing
>Windows didn't work because he
>had a compressed disk installed
>(Windows crashed at the "detecting
>hardware" part). So he tried
>to format his harddrive, but
>that didn't work either, because
>he had to "disconnect" his
>compressed drive first.
>So I took FDisk, created a
>small partition, and that compressed
>disk was gone (wich was
>exactly what he wanted).

That's why you don't compress hard drives. :)

Drive space is cheap. IBM will soon be selling a 100 GB hard drive at 2 megs cache and 7200 RPM for only $100. It's designed to crush the competition. THAT is the kind of capitalism I like.

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RE: Partition Manager...

wherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewhere?!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!


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RE: Partition Manager...

All I have to say is :

GIMME NOW NOW NOW I NEED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

That BETTER be available in England or I'll cry.
 
RE: Partition Manager...

It would have came in handy the time I installed linux decided I needed disk space more than Linux and I had to create a second partition. I was downloading it once but the site got took down before I got finished on my crappy 56K modem.
 
RE: Partition Manager...

>All I have to say is
>:
>
>GIMME NOW NOW NOW I NEED
>IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>That BETTER be available in England
>or I'll cry.

I think it may be out 1st/2nd quarter of 2001. I can't remember, I read it in PC Magazine.

I might snag a pair.. :)

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