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HI Ron:
Thanks for the info, I'm not against PowerQuest or it's products. It's just
I don't want a software to add a file on the c:\ and change the way it boots
up.
To elaborate my problem, here is what I encountered, I have 2 hardisks in in
one box running winxps. I installed PowerQuest on the first hd and performed
partitions. When I tried to switch the master/slave drives. It can't find the
boot
table and can't find a valid partition table either.
That's why I'm trying to use another software without japordizing what I
have on the disks or the need to reformatting the hard disks.
Any suggestions?
"Ron Martell" wrote:
> treehh <treehh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >The reason I dont' want partition margic b/c it messes up the boot/partition
> >table and force you to keep the software after you perform the
> >partition/resizing. I find it very inconvenient for my network.
> >
> >Is there any software available to perform partition/formating drives w/o
> >that software?
> >
> >I'm using Win XP SP1 by the way
>
> There are other partitioning utilities available, such as BootItNG
> from www.bootitng.com (which is what I currently use).
>
> I fail to understand your problems with Partition Magic. I used it
> for several years for partitioning drives and also used their
> BootMagic as my boot manager for choosing between the 3 different
> versions of Windows that I had installed.
>
> I switched to BootItNG because it was less expensive that Partition
> Magic, but I find it equally functional and I have no partitioning
> related issues with my computer whatever.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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>
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>