From: Ron Heiby (heiby_at_falkor.chi.il.us)
Date: Sat Jan 02 1999 - 16:36:09 EST
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At 12:54 PM 1/2/99 -0800, Paul Khoury wrote:
>BootMagic? Or do you mean BootManager,
>which comes with Partition Magic (at least from 3.0)?
No. I mean BootMagic that
>>comes along "free" with Partition Magic 4.0
>>BTW, I wouldn't recommend to anybody to try to set up such a
>>system without Partition Magic.
>Why? If you're starting out from scratch, FDISK works very well.
Well, if you know exactly how you want to partition your disk from the start,
then FDISK works just fine. Or, if you are willing to back up everything,
destroy everything, re-create everything differently, and restore everything
each time you want to make a change, then FDISK works just fine, too.
(Naturally, you should have backups before using any such utility. However, if
things don't get screwed up, you don't have to spend time doing the restores.)
>Or you could have enough room for NT, and put applications on another
>logical drive.
Well, I thought that I did leave enough room for NT, putting my compilers,
etc. out on that secondary partition (which I thought I mentioned). But, even
re-directing all the installs to go out to F: (for example), Microsoft *loves*
to load lots of stuff onto C:. When I was all done, I had something like 50
Meg left free on C:, which I didn't feel was quite enough. That's why I
increased its size after everything got installed.
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