From: Victor Kress (kress_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 02 1999 - 08:45:04 EST
I think BootMagic is a slicker, more graphical version of Boot Manager. It comes with
the latest Partition Magic.
On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 15:36:09 -0600, Ron Heiby wrote:
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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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