🚀 go-pugleaf

Tony Collins <ned@zipmeup.com.au> wrote:

:pcb wrote:
:
:> i need to find a copy of partition magic. i want to try it out, then i will
:> buy. anyone know where i can find one? thanks a ton
:>
:> ben
:
:Do a search on the www.  You'll find it, don't worry.  The DOS version is only
:700 k ish.  I have it.  It's just as good as the win85 version.

 Having just tried it, here's some thoughts:

 Install it, let the installer create the Rescue & Help diskettes, and
then blow it away!!
 Never try to use it from the Windows interface: what it does is
install a boot-time hook which allows it to resize the ptn. next time
you boot. Fair enough, but when you do so, it fails (complaining about
access rights vs. NT - why, since NT isn't yet running?), and aborts.
However it DOES NOT remove itself from the boot chain: your system is
lost, stuck in a loop

   repeat {
      boot up;
      Ptn. Mgr. error #28.  "Reboot your system"
      } forever;

 The remedy is only to use the "Rescue" disk, which is basically Ptn.
Mgr. on a bootable DOS diskette - do all your changes from that.