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Anonymous   03-07-2002 at 11:08:25 PM

The PowerQuest website says that PartitionMagic 7 works with hard drives up to 80-GB. I would like to buy one of the new WD 1200-GB drives, and migrate my 40-GB boot drive, however, I am not sure that PartitionMagic will accept my 40-GB partition from the 120-GB WD drive.
PowerQuest did not help...

Any help from thsi forum will be appreciated.

Alain

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jc14all   03-08-2002 at 12:20:45 AM
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Then before you load the OS on the 120 GB do fdisk and create two partitions 80 GB (primary-active) & 40 GB. It should work ok with this configuration. Then you can migrate your 40 GB HDD to the 80 GB partition with Ghost/Drive Copy.

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Anonymous   03-08-2002 at 01:44:06 PM
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Thanks... just out of curiosity, do you know what is so magical about 80-GB...? I mean why do they specifically say they support drives up to 80-GB and not any large drive?
Is there many something different with the technology?

Thanks

Alain

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camieabz   03-08-2002 at 08:36:29 PM
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Don't know. One possibility may be that there is a 'professional version' which supports more. If there is such a pack, they might not want business users getting away with the cheaper option.

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OldBear   03-09-2002 at 04:35:52 AM
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Good insight and probably correct.


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camieabz   03-09-2002 at 11:55:42 AM
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Just an uninformed guess actually.

Someone will probably shoot it down soon enough. :smile:

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jc14all   03-09-2002 at 09:33:58 PM
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Ok, here is the deal. I contacted Power Quest tech support regarding the size limitation of Partition Magic and this is their reply:

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Part of the explanation is that drives larger than 80GB simply were not available when testing was completed with the product. Same with PartitionMagic 6, I believe it was 60GB or so. NTFS partitions above the capacity should be okay (so far as I have seen), but FAT32 partitions over 64GB still have some memory issues.

AldenT, MCP
PowerQuest Technical Support




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Anonymous   03-09-2002 at 10:28:59 PM
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WOW thanks for yhe info... I had tried to contact them myself but never got an answer... I am on my way to PriceGrabber to get that WD 120-GB....

Alain

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jc14all   03-09-2002 at 11:51:53 PM
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I bet sometime in the near future Partition Magic v.8.0 will come out with a 120-150 GB limitation. Since we now know the mystery of their version limitation restriction :smile: . Good luck on setting up your new drive. Peace!

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OldBear   03-10-2002 at 03:10:52 AM
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Camie, I installed version 7 on my 120gig and it works fine. You can do all functions with it.
No worries.

(of course I did a full backup before testing :smile: )

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jc14all   03-10-2002 at 05:10:49 AM
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Really! You mean you could create, resize, move, format,...etc. on your 120 G HDD with complete functionality? If so, then I guess Power Quest doesn't want to take liability for data lose beyond their test perimeters (per tech sup). WTG OldBear, now we can blame our screw-ups on you...hehehe :smile:

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OldBear   03-10-2002 at 05:51:36 AM
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That's ok. I'm married and used to it.


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camieabz   03-10-2002 at 03:26:13 PM
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Yep. I figured its almost identical. I have the proper Powerquest disk for v6.0, but my v7.0 is [cough]on loan[/cough].

I prefer using the disks for now. I plan to go to W2K soon, so NTFS will be the way if I decide to add GBs to my system.

BTW I could almost feel the sigh in that last post.

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OldBear   03-11-2002 at 04:59:57 AM
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No sigh. I am very happily married and if you don't believe me,
ask my wife. :smile:



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camieabz   03-11-2002 at 09:28:37 PM
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OK then.

Oldbears wife?

Is he happily married or running scared?

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OldBear   03-12-2002 at 07:19:38 AM
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All seriousness aside, I am very happily married.

:smile:


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camieabz   03-13-2002 at 02:43:14 AM
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Good for you!

Glad someone managed it.

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