I too agree about Partition Magic.You can do four primary partitions on a
hard drive plus many extended partitions. You will not lose data as with
fdisk and you can resize the partitions while they contain data. PM
recommends backing up data before partitioning but I have never lost data.
Perhaps if one has some sort of an accident during the process like maybe a
power failure it may cause problems.  Jim Dicomes   [log in to unmask]
> If you do not have Partition Magic 6, I suggest you try it. It is most
> excellent
> for partitioning, it makes it so easy.
>
>
>
> Susan Stubbs
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jack R Payton
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] partitioning questions
>
>
> Susan:
>
> [My questions are mostly rhetorical, requiring no email answer.]
>
> It seems you want to make things more complicated than they are. You have
> a 30G plus a 40G HDD? Unless you have a tremendous, professional need for
> HDD space, you seem to have a huge overkill. As I understand it, only
> extensive 3D graphics, music CD creation, and/or film/video editing would
> require 70G of HDD. (I expect to do much of the same on one 17G HDD.)
>
> Why do you want to run WinME and/or Win98SE along with the forthcoming
> WinXP? WinXP should replace both WinME and Win NTx, combining the best of
> both plus upgrades. Most reviewers of the WinXP Beta seem to agree that
> WinXP will be more stable than WinME and add features not available in
> WinNT.
>
> So, why worry about a multible boot? You may have a reason to dual boot
> between WinXP and Linux, but what else?
>
> I don't use either Linux OS or Partition Magic (any version), but if you
> want to use Linux simultaneously with any version of Windows, why not use
> one HDD (minimum 30G) for each?
>
> We dumped Win98SE (as we did all of its predecessors back to Win3.0) for
> WinME. ME has proven more stable and has some added features. We miss
> some of SE's intrinsic help & troubleshooting programs/features - most of
> which are now available online - but on balance, we prefer WinME, and are
> looking forward to XP.
>
> I can't advise on boot partitions for multiple OS, but for a single Winxx
> OS, I'd recommend 2.0-2.5G as a basic logical HDD partition for
> Windows-xx (larger, if you keep your Win Swapfile on the boot drive), and
> the rest to suit your needs. If you really need to install both Linux AND
> Windows, why not install one on your 30G and one on your 40G?
>
> You said that "250mb was not enough for an OS." No doubt. WinME typically
> requires 1.5G minimum for OS and a swap file.
>
> Jack
>
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