Partition Boot Drive with partition magic

[shadeckr]

Has anyone successfully used partition magic to repartition their primary (boot) drive? If so what version did they use. When I installed NT I set the entire hard drive as one partition (NTFS) and would like to add WIN 98 but need to "repartiton" my hard drive without reformatting.

[Raider Adam]

I've used Partition Magic for just about everything.

I have mostly used 3.04, but 4.0 I just got and it is real nice.

If you have only a NT partition currently, you'd be best getting a copy of the new 4.0.

And yes, you can use it to partition your boot partition. UNLESS it is a RAID setup, then you need to buy Server Magic from Powerquest.

[capri]

I would recommend you get Server Magic, if you want to repartition your server. I just did mine last Thursday with Partition Magic 4.0 . I had some assistance but it still took a couple of hours and a few phone calls to the PowerQuest support line. They were very helpful, but said that the license really did not cover what I was doing. However that said, once it was done everything works great and I did not lose a single file.

[shadeckr]

Sorry for leaving out some details. I want to do this to an NT workstation.

[HWMC]

Go with Raider Adam, Partition Magic 4 runs under NT so you get all the benefits of a graphical interface. Be careful though, resist the temptation to build up a sequence of events to be followed in 'batch' style, take it one step at a time.