Partition info

[griffinspc]

I just finished sending this mail to Murf and asked if he thought I should post it since my original thread for help was quite awhile back. He said yes so for all you folks out there thinking of dual booting and creating partitions here is a warning or two and a recommendation.

Murf. Just writing to let you know that with a lot of sweat, frustration and your suggestions I finally have the dual boot system I wanted. I bought Partition Magic 6.0 and it was helpful but also caused me to have to completely wipe the drives in this machine. The drive mapper destroyed the tables and the beginning clusters and was unable to get them back.

Oh well, as Maxx found out earlier it's not such a bad thing to get into the guts and start over.

At any rate I thought you'd be interested in my setup that works great. It's still somewhat unorthodox since I wanted to have 2 working drives on this machine and 2 drives on another machine networked as well as dual booting this machine with W98 and NT. Here's how I finally set it up so everything's shared as well as giving me the network capabilities I wanted.


That's machine one, machine 2 isn't shown but is networked to this machine.

I wish after all this I could remember who I should give credit to for XOLS boot manager. I can't remember who recommended it here and since my complete drive loss my bookmarked threads are history. At any rate it works great as most good freeware does. The $69.00 Boot Magic that comes with Partition Magic doesn't. Go figure.

I'm tempted to resurrect my original thread and attach this letter to warn others about Partition Magic's drive mapper and about XOLS and boot magic. What do you think?

Last, Thanks for your earlier e-mail help (which is also lost now) and talk to you soon. It's been a long struggle and I've gone through VrDoctor withdrawal getting here.

Glad to be back.


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[griffinspc]

Thanks Mosaic. Yup lost everything. I'd love to have a copy. I have a dumping ground email address for stuff but don't know if an attachment can be retrieved there. Never tried. It's a good time to find out.
Please send to: [email protected]

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[This message has been edited by griffinspc (edited 06-02-2001).]

[kenlinzee]

yeh, that drive mapper sucks, i do like partition magic much better than using Windows FDisk, i allways click no to drivemappers request to change the drive letters...

i never installed the bootmagic, so i cannot say one way or the other about it...

XOSL is the same i have it downloaded buy i havent installed & used it yet, but i read a lot of good reports about it...

[griffinspc]

I wouldn't touch drive mapper again if they refunded part of my money and as far as XOLS it's great. Format it the way you want; which OS you want 1st, delay times if you want a default OS, add new delete old, in short right up there with Irfanview as recommended freeware.

Read the readme file before installing though. Ther author has some recommendations and suggestions. I chose to go with a DOS installation but it's up to you.

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[glussier]

Another great piece of software that is freeware and has the added advantage (over Partition Magic) of fitting on a floppy disk is Ranish Partition Manager, you can get it at http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part , together with XOSL, it can all fit on the same floppy.