i used ranish partition manager for a while but windows did not like the way i had extended partitions with that.
or you can use gnu parted on a knoppix live cd.
I hate FuckinDSK! 1 primary and 1 extended and thats all you can get. its old and All MBR's can support 3 primary and 1 extended. fdisk is just restricting you,
Got Knoppix? I forget what the included program is called (qtparted maybe?), but it's pretty close to PartitionMagic. cfdisk (slackware install disk) works if you don't need anyting majorly complex.
Thanks for all the info guys. I am wanting to resize my hd cause I was thinking about running 98se but I realized all I have to do is get a case for my 433 celeron and I can play my old games.
Start with fdisk and set the size of the partitions first if you can.
Windows does like it better expecially Windows 9/me.
Then I would use Partition Magic and I wouldn't install it, I'd get the
floppys from someone who had. If this causes you an ethics
problem then use reuel's boot disk with a text based "Partition Magic"
that's a little harder to work or just let the OS you are installing
format the partition to whatever it needs. Reuel's boot disk is
available somewhere on the net or I have a copy. I also have
something you might want to use instead.
Thump
PS: I forgot about bootit. It's available as a 30 day trial and I don't
know for sure but I believe it really works. {The Partition Magic
trial doesn't.}. It can do much more than Partition Magic with just
one floppy. It's very complicated though so try it at your own risk.
The 30 day trial, that is if you install the boot loader. I use boot it ng, great program to have, just bypass the install of the bootloader, and then find your way to the partition table
The 30 day trial, that is if you install the boot loader. I use boot it ng, great program to have, just bypass the install of the bootloader, and then find your way to the partition table
Yeah, I wanted to have some bootloader so I could have every windows OS I had at the time fit on a hard drive (in their own paritions so they don't rape eachother). I liked BootIt NG's gui, but I couldn't get a serial for it... I also tried Partition Boot Manager, it was heavily dos like but also got the job done, but again, no serial.
The reason I am using 98se is cause of compatability. I want to play my old games that my newer and way to fast computer cannot. Since XP is based off the NT kernal I can't play some games cause they will not work in nt and they think XP is NT. I will dual boot if I get a bigger hd.
condef thats what compatiblity mode is for... i have a few games like that, i run them in compatibility mode for windows 95 and it works great..... though somtimes it doesn't help at all
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or you can use gnu parted on a knoppix live cd.
I hate FuckinDSK! 1 primary and 1 extended and thats all you can get. its old and All MBR's can support 3 primary and 1 extended. fdisk is just restricting you,
Partition Magic ownz
ConDef believes that cracking software / using serialz you dont own is stealing :P
you dont get the full windows version, but you get the 2 bootable floppies that let you do what the program can do.
-Q
Windows does like it better expecially Windows 9/me.
Then I would use Partition Magic and I wouldn't install it, I'd get the
floppys from someone who had. If this causes you an ethics
problem then use reuel's boot disk with a text based "Partition Magic"
that's a little harder to work or just let the OS you are installing
format the partition to whatever it needs. Reuel's boot disk is
available somewhere on the net or I have a copy. I also have
something you might want to use instead.
Thump
PS: I forgot about bootit. It's available as a 30 day trial and I don't
know for sure but I believe it really works. {The Partition Magic
trial doesn't.}. It can do much more than Partition Magic with just
one floppy. It's very complicated though so try it at your own risk.
It's System Commander.
Get it on http://fosi.ural.net
Thanks to Thump!
I just remember that ::roll:
-Q