John,

I run multi-boot W2k Pro and PM7.

If XP is like W2k, there are "hardware addresses "
stored in the system registry. I find mine as
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SYSTEM - MountedDevices,
and have dabbled with them. It is not something
you would ordinarily want to do ...

I suspect that PM6 will cheerfully, cheerfully
allow you to change partition boundaries without
changing entries in the Windows registry. This
may make a partition unbootable.

Can you use PM6 to reverse the operations that
altered the partition boundary? Just to get
XP running again?

Hard drive prices are potentially under $1/gb.
I'd recommend a strategy built around a larger
drive for dual/multi-boot.

  Cheers,
  David

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Date:    Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:39:06 -0500
From:    John Dinges <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Resizing Partitions with PM 6.0

Computer info- MSI K7T266Pro2A,Amd xp2000+,512Meg,20gb
Maxtor,Win ME & XP.
Drive was originally partitioned as C:10gb Primary and
D:10gb Extended partition.Has worked okay for almost a year.
Have win ME on C and XP on D.Started to defrag drives, D:
msg, not enough to defrag. Chg'd to C: started PM 6.0 to
resize partitions.Reduced C: to 8gb and added 2gb to front
end of D:.ME on C: boots and works fine. XP on D: starts to
boot but freezes at the second screen.Help file says may
have to run SYS.Com to get files back in proper order. Not
sure how to do this. Help please.John

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