How long does it take to partition 30 Gigs?
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How long does it take to partition 30 Gigs?
Not that long. Resizing partitions can be slower. And beware: only the very latest version (PQMagic 7.0) works with Windows XP. Even if you install and then remove Windows XP, PQMagic 6 and ealier will not work with NTFS partitions.
I have partition magic 6 and i'm running it in win98. I think I have about 2 hours left if that statusgauge is reliable (it started from 49% somehow :confused: )
Btw, does merging take any time and will the data stay intact?
I haven't merged before. And everything that you do with PartitionMagic is non-destructive, unlike fdisk. :)
Ah good that :) I might want to merge the partitions on my first disk
I have PM5 and it works with NTFS. and linux partitions as well.Quote:
Originally posted by filburt1
Not that long. Resizing partitions can be slower. And beware: only the very latest version (PQMagic 7.0) works with Windows XP. Even if you install and then remove Windows XP, PQMagic 6 and ealier will not work with NTFS partitions.
2 hours left, that is way to long. I did my 20gig in a half an hour I think. I know it wasn't more than and hour.Quote:
I have partition magic 6 and i'm running it in win98. I think I have about 2 hours left if that statusgauge is reliable (it started from 49% somehow )
Btw, does merging take any time and will the data stay intact?
that is why they tell you to backup you data, dude where do you get your information??Quote:
Originally posted by filburt1
I haven't merged before. And everything that you do with PartitionMagic is non-destructive, unlike fdisk. :)
well it actually only took less than an hour, but the status gauge had freezed in 75%
Dell :D :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by scoutt
that is why they tell you to backup you data, dude where do you get your information??
PM is supposed to be nondestructive, and i've never had a problem with it, but it's always good to back up incase of power failure, etc..
:D DELL :DQuote:
Originally posted by jpbtennisman
Dell :D :D :D
PM is supposed to be nondestructive, and i've never had a problem with it, but it's always good to back up incase of power failure, etc..
yes I agree, it may not be destructive but you can't say everything you do is not destructive in partition magic. anything you do to the hard drive that consist of rearraging the fat table or boot sector has the potential to mess it up and lose the information. like you said power failures. I have never had a problem with PM messing it up.
kedaman: whew :D
how do i change the drive letter?
if you do it with PM then it will do it itself in a cronological order. I don't think you can in win98, but win2000 you do.
um, i might be stuck in 98 now because XP was in D: which now is E:
and D was another drive? or a partition? if it was a drive that means that 98 moves all teh drives down if you have extra partitions in. it is suppose to be that it reads the C drive then another drive if you have it installed then it goes to the partitions. then it goes to the cdroms.
but if it was another partition you can make it so when you partition the C: you can add it after the XP partition so the e, f, g etc.. will go after the XP one.
D was a partition. The new D is a primary partition on my new hdd, i hided it and the E: reverted to D: but why does it do that? why can't I just give them the letter i want?
thats win98 for ya. it might have been that way since you made D: primary. if you made it anything else it might not change it like it did. that's whats great about PM, if you mess up you can go back and do it again to get it right.
why does it do these? I have 2 of these unused 7.8M so i thought i might make use of them, one succeded but this one just makes itself primary and when i try to make it logical, it says theres not enough diskspace :confused:
http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=499889
are you trying to put those 7.8M into another partition? or are they drives. that is a small drive if it is. anyway I would merge them to an existing partition. if they were a partition. if they are drives you might be lucky to use them, as the fat table will take about 3 mb of that.
well it doesnt work, because i have to make them FAT, not FAT32 (theyre too small for that) There's no but logical partitions on my new hdd, should i convert one to primary? in that case will it make itself D:?
it might make it D if you made it primary, hard to say how windows will hanlde it. I wouldn't worry about them since they are so small anyway, you couldn't even put a program on there, ;)
Ok, i'll just kill it
Is it possible with FDISK to take 2 or 3 Physically seperate drives, and combine them into one partition? Also, if not possible with FDISK, is it possible with partition magic?
And one more question. If i format the partition that partition magic is installed on, will i loose all the partitoning that i did?
You can make a boot disk with PartitionMagic on it.
no I don't think it is. being seperate that is, they have to connect through different ports (ide) unless you have them raided, and only if they are teh same exact size then it will work.Quote:
Originally posted by sail3005
Is it possible with FDISK to take 2 or 3 Physically seperate drives, and combine them into one partition? Also, if not possible with FDISK, is it possible with partition magic?
And one more question. If i format the partition that partition magic is installed on, will i loose all the partitoning that i did?
if you format the drive with PM on it, I would expect that would be your main drive, then ya you will, I think. I don't know if PM will format in the program itself, you can but I don't think it will remove itself as it is running.
theoretically you can format any partition and keep the partition tables the same. however if you fdisked them then you will remove the partitions that PM did.
Does anyone know why it does leave those 7.8M unused diskspaces? There's an old primary FAT partition on my disk that I've been trying to merge with the FAT32 on the other side, but when i upgrade it to FAT32 a 7.8M space splits them up, and that space can only be occupied with FAT, how do I merge?