Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.

Will not work from Vista
"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
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> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>
>
>[/color]

Yes, you work with Vista formatted drives. But as Nero said, the software is
not compatible with Vista.
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Andre
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"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
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> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>
>[/color]

[url]http://www.paragon-software.com/hdm/[/url]


"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
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> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>
>[/color]

Doesn't Vista's disk management resize partitions without destroying data?


"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
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> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>
>[/color]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:07:38 -0500, "Michael O" <momalle1********.com>
wrote:
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>Doesn't Vista's disk management resize partitions without destroying data?
>
>
>"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
>news:OK1Z7SfAHHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
>> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>>
>>[/color]
>[/color]
So they claim <G>

"Nero" <nero@rome.it> wrote in message
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> Will not work from Vista
> "Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
> news:OK1Z7SfAHHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
>> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>>
>>
>>[/color]
>[/color]
Speaking for PM v8, it won't touch a Vista partition when run from XP (dual
boot system) either. Perhaps later versions will...

I finally took a leap of faith and tried it (in a virtual machine). First I
enlarged the partition, taking away from unallocated space. It took about 10
seconds to go from a 10 gig partition to a 15 gig partition. I rebooted the
virtual machine and everything was fine.

Then I downsized again to 10 gig. It took about 5 minutes. After another
reboot, everything was still fine. Went back to a 15 gig partition and
stayed there. It is now 5-6 days and everything is OK.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Steve Urbach" <dragonsclaw@NOTmindspring.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:07:38 -0500, "Michael O" <momalle1********.com>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>Doesn't Vista's disk management resize partitions without destroying data?
>>
>>
>>"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
>>news:OK1Z7SfAHHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
>>> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>[/color]
> So they claim <G>[/color]

To clarify my question. There are 2 cases of concern.

1. On a Windows XP system, one might want to run Partition Magic from
floppies to add/resize partitions so Vista could be installed.

2. Once Vista is installed, a situation may arise in which partitions need
to be created/deleted/resized. In this case, I would prefer to run PM from
floppies

I have run into generated errors when running PM from the floppies. This is
on a system that is running fine, with 4 partitions on my first hard drive.

Trust me. If you do try, and get an error that states "do you want Partition
Magic" to fix this error" - say no.

I said yes and lost all 4 partitions on my hard drive.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
news:eyH0hekAHHA.204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> To clarify my question. There are 2 cases of concern.
>
> 1. On a Windows XP system, one might want to run Partition Magic from
> floppies to add/resize partitions so Vista could be installed.
>
> 2. Once Vista is installed, a situation may arise in which partitions need
> to be created/deleted/resized. In this case, I would prefer to run PM from
> floppies
>
>[/color]

You were scared, thats why you did it in a Virtual Machine. :-P
--
Andre
Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
news:%233h7EZiAHHA.1780@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I finally took a leap of faith and tried it (in a virtual machine). First I
>enlarged the partition, taking away from unallocated space. It took about
>10 seconds to go from a 10 gig partition to a 15 gig partition. I rebooted
>the virtual machine and everything was fine.
>
> Then I downsized again to 10 gig. It took about 5 minutes. After another
> reboot, everything was still fine. Went back to a 15 gig partition and
> stayed there. It is now 5-6 days and everything is OK.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Steve Urbach" <dragonsclaw@NOTmindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:1tsvk2hhjn2jedk2plsvbrm62fn798hpaf@4ax.com...[color=green]
>> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:07:38 -0500, "Michael O" <momalle1********.com>
>> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>>Doesn't Vista's disk management resize partitions without destroying
>>>data?
>>>
>>>
>>>"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
>>>news:OK1Z7SfAHHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>> Does Partition Magic work with drives formatted by Vista?
>>>> To play safe, Partition Magic could be run from floppies.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>[/color]
>> So they claim <G>[/color]
>
>[/color]

Richard:
I agree with you about saying NO on letting PM repair the error. I
learned the lesson with PM7 when NTFS was new and it still hasn't changed.


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
news:O669EBmAHHA.4292@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have run into generated errors when running PM from the floppies. This is
>on a system that is running fine, with 4 partitions on my first hard drive.
>
> Trust me. If you do try, and get an error that states "do you want
> Partition Magic" to fix this error" - say no.
>
> I said yes and lost all 4 partitions on my hard drive.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
> news:eyH0hekAHHA.204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> To clarify my question. There are 2 cases of concern.
>>
>> 1. On a Windows XP system, one might want to run Partition Magic from
>> floppies to add/resize partitions so Vista could be installed.
>>
>> 2. Once Vista is installed, a situation may arise in which partitions
>> need
>> to be created/deleted/resized. In this case, I would prefer to run PM
>> from
>> floppies
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

To clarify my question. There are 2 cases of concern.

1. On a Windows XP system, one might want to run Partition Magic from
floppies to add/resize partitions so Vista could be installed.

2. Once Vista is installed, a situation may arise in which partitions need
to be created/deleted/resized. In this case, I would prefer to run PM from
floppies

Howard:

I have used PM v7.01 via floppy boot to resize and to move free space
several times.
I have two hard disks with 18 vols and 5 op systems installed (incl Vista).
No problems.

Note: I perform each change individually (no "batch" processing). That means
I will downsize a vol, then move that free space over 4 vols, and then add
the free space to the 5th vol; each step is performed individually, not as a
single process.

BTW, computer is a Dell Dimension 9100 with SATA drives

"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
news:eyH0hekAHHA.204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> To clarify my question. There are 2 cases of concern.
>
> 1. On a Windows XP system, one might want to run Partition Magic from
> floppies to add/resize partitions so Vista could be installed.
>
> 2. Once Vista is installed, a situation may arise in which partitions need
> to be created/deleted/resized. In this case, I would prefer to run PM from
> floppies[/color]

Based on the replies, I guess only item 1 is safe.

> 1. On a Windows XP system, one might want to run Partition Magic from[color=blue]
> floppies to add/resize partitions so Vista could be installed.
>
> 2. Once Vista is installed, a situation may arise in which partitions need
> to be created/deleted/resized. In this case, I would prefer to run PM from
> floppies[/color]

Based on the replies, I guess only item 1 is safe.

Howard:

I have done both without problems. However, it is always best to have a
recovery plan (backups?) just in case. I have never had a problem using PM
via floppy boot, but I always think of recovery possibilities before I
begin.