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need to upgrade PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 - please help
My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? |
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I don't know. I quit using PM several years ago as it costs too much and
the frequent upgrades are not free. I use: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Adam" wrote in message . com... My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? |
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Adam wrote:
My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Could you please elaborate on this disappointment? What exactly do ppl. say (is it just because it is Symantec (the "little Microsoft"))? Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 is in fact PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 using a different name an colors and got rid of Datakeeper. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? -- M.f.G. Michael Kimmer "Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag" "Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht" |
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No need.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html "Adam" wrote in message . com... My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? |
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"Lil' Dave" wrote in message
No need. http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html Nonsense, that is for free. Money shall be spend. "Adam" wrote in message . com... My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? |
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Please read my email return address and do so.
"Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message ... "Lil' Dave" wrote in message No need. http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html Nonsense, that is for free. Money shall be spend. "Adam" wrote in message . com... My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? |
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"Adam" wrote in message . com... My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? you don't need PM8 to partition an 80 gig drive the new drive should come with partitioning software... or else...all you need is the updated version of fdisk you can either get the new fdisk from microsoft or else just use a winME bootdisk which you can get from www.bootdisk.com |
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I'm looking for partitioning software that is capable of backing up (or copying) existing FAT32 bootable partitions. Are the partitioning software you mention capable of this? "philo" wrote in message ... "Adam" wrote in message . com... My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with Symantec's handling of PowerQuest's software. Is it still possible to get a version of PM8 that has not been processed by Symantec? you don't need PM8 to partition an 80 gig drive the new drive should come with partitioning software... or else...all you need is the updated version of fdisk you can either get the new fdisk from microsoft or else just use a winME bootdisk which you can get from www.bootdisk.com |
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"Adam" wrote:
I'm looking for partitioning software that is capable of backing up (or copying) existing FAT32 bootable partitions. Are the partitioning software you mention capable of this? You're looling for what is frequently called a "disk cloning" or "imaging" utility. PowerQuest's Drive Image 7.x (now Norton's Ghost 9.0), Acronis' True Image, and several others do this, not partitioning utilities. Xxcopy does this, too, but I've not heard much about it except that it's free (see their website at http:\\www.xxCopy.com ). If you want the cloned partition to be bootable (assuming it contains an operating system), tell the utility to copy the Master Boot Record ("MBR") as well. On the 1st boot-up of the clone, don't let the original OS be visible to the clone or the clone will hook into files on the original drive and the clone thereafter won't run without the original OS present. To do this, just disconnect the original drive and put the clone in its place for that 1st boot-up. Thereafter, the clone can be booted even with the original visible to it. If you have WinXP (or Win2K) (and if the clone drive has the space), you can put at least 4 copies of the original OS on the clone drive, and each can be bootable from its separate *primary* partition. (It may be the case that WinXP/2K can be booted from a logical drive, but I've never put a clone into a logical drive.) You can then use WinXP/2K's) multi- boot feature to select the clone for booting at boot time. You would have to adjust the original drive's boot.ini file (at C:\boot.ini) to add a line pointing to the clone to include it in the original drive's boot menu to do that, but that is trivial if you know the boot.ini syntax. Since your clone(s) might also act as emergency copies of the original in the event the original drive crashes, you ought to adjust the boot.ini file in the "active" partition on your clone drive as well. You can make any partition on a drive the "active" partition by using Disk Management (rt-click on My Computer, click Manage, click Disk Management), and that indicates that the boot.ini file in that partition will be used for the boot menu of OSes to select from. When pointing to partitions with boot.ini, remember that the 1st partition on the drive is known as "partition(1)", the 2nd partition as "partition(2)", etc. You can use the part of the boot.ini file that is in quotes to call each OS whatever you want. If the original drive crashes, just pop the archive drive in its place and boot the OS version that you want. Otherwise, you can keep the archive drive connected where it is, and you can boot into it by adjusting the boot sequence in the BIOS. If you have WinXP and the archive drive is selected by the BIOS' boot sequence, the boot.ini file in the drive's "active" partition will let you select which partition (i.e. which OS version) to boot into. Keep in mind that the boot.ini file in the "active" partition will always think it's in the booted partition (called "Logical Disk (C" by Windows), so set the rdisk() lines in boot.ini file to point appropriately to "this" hard drive (i.e rdisk(0) ) or to "the next" hard drive (i.e. rdisk(1) ) or "the one after that" (i.e. rdisk(2) ). This sequence of hard drives, by the way, is determined by the boot sequence in the BIOS, and by adjusting that sequence, you adjust what is meant by "this drive", "the next drive", and "the one after that". *TimDaniels* |
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ... "Adam" wrote: I'm looking for partitioning software that is capable of backing up (or copying) existing FAT32 bootable partitions. Are the partitioning software you mention capable of this? You're looling for what is frequently called a "disk cloning" or "imaging" utility. PowerQuest's Drive Image 7.x (now Norton's Ghost 9.0), Acronis' True Image, and several others do this, not partitioning utilities. Xxcopy does this, too, but I've not heard much about it except that it's free (see their website at http:\\www.xxCopy.com ). If you want the cloned partition to be bootable (assuming it contains an operating system), tell the utility to copy the Master Boot Record ("MBR") as well. On the 1st boot-up of the clone, don't let the original OS be visible to the clone or the clone will hook into files on the original drive and the clone thereafter won't run without the original OS present. To do this, just disconnect the original drive and put the clone in its place for that 1st boot-up. Thereafter, the clone can be booted even with the original visible to it. snip i've used xxcopy with the /clone switch and it worked fine |
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