- Partition Magic Pro 5
- Posted by jch on May 24th, 2008
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Hello All OS/2 Users,
I recently built fresh install of OS/2 Warp 4, and needed to move
partition boundaries a bit. My floppy disk set (dated 1999) of
Partition Magic (by Powerquest) failed. Diskette 2 developed a read
error. I cannot find my original Pro 5 CD anywhere. Surfing the net i
have been unable to locate a copy of the CD. The reason for using
version 5 is that it handles partitions containing a HPFS file system.
Some of the later versions apparently do not.
I have two options available to move partition boundaries:
1) Find a good copy of Partition Magic Pro v5.0 on CD or floppies, or
2) Use DFSee's (most recent release) "move partition" function.
Unfortunately, DFSee's function seems to be disabled, or not yet
implemented.
Does any of you have any comments, ideas?
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Regards / JCH
- Posted by philo on May 25th, 2008
"jch" <jch@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:TmYZj.291019$pM4.170163@pd7urf1no...
I have a version of partition magic that supports HPFS.
It may be version 4 however.
- Posted by Andreas Schnellbacher on May 25th, 2008
On 24.05.08 19:36, jch wrote:
Just select the medium (partition) to work with first and it should
work. Always use a recent version.
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Andreas Schnellbacher
- Posted by Doug Bissett on May 25th, 2008
On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:36:51 UTC, jch <jch@nowhere.net> wrote:
Use DFSEE, and throw Partition Magic in the garbage.
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- Posted by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on May 26th, 2008
In <TmYZj.291019$pM4.170163@pd7urf1no>, on 05/24/2008
at 05:36 PM, jch <jch@nowhere.net> said:
Try to find version 2 of PM; someone at PQ decided that it would be a k3wl
idea to change extended logical partitions to type 0F without telling you,
much less asking permission. If you can't get a version old enough to not
have that bug, make sure that you have a sector editor lying around.
Unless there's a version that fixes it; I stopped giving them money after
buying an "upgrade" to version 4 that was actually a downgrade.
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- Posted by Pete on May 26th, 2008
On Sun, 25 May 2008 20:40:58 UTC, "Doug Bissett"
<dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> wrote:
Hear, hear. DFSee 9.07 has a partition resize option in the Actions
menu. If absolutely necessary, you can always copy data off data
partitions and put it back after they've been resized. If you buy a
license, you get excellent tech support from Jan.
Pete
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- Posted by Marty on May 26th, 2008
Pete wrote:
Seconded (thirded?). Jan doesn't charge much, he stands behind his
software all the way, and he'll even talk you through or hold your hand
through some of the nastier operations if needed. So don't be afraid if
the tool looks complex to you (even though it is pretty friendly). A
nice e-mail to Jan with your registration fee will get you through just
about anything. ;-)
FYI: I destroyed partition tables across 3 disks because one of my
drives didn't perform bus mastering correctly. This includes several
partitions that were split (via LVM) across 2 physical disks. Jan
helped me recover nearly everything. The only stuff that couldn't be
restored was the stuff I had messed with too much on my own, overwriting
too much information.
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- Posted by jobar on May 26th, 2008
Marty wrote:
Use DFSee. Follow instructions to back up your partitions. Jan will help
you restore them if they are lost. As the others have said, don't use
Partition Tragic. I have gotten buried more than once with it.
- Posted by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz on May 27th, 2008
In <dyNtG3SnKjcq-pn2-pONoMfPbRoKs@localhost>, on 05/26/2008
at 12:47 AM, "Pete" <khadhargo@sbc...nospam.-.global.net> said:
Does it also have a move option?
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- Posted by Pete on May 30th, 2008
On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:16:49 UTC, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:
Yes, but I haven't tried it.
Pete
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