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Does Partition Magic 6 work on XP?

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NakaNaka

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I am booting ME/XP and I want to make the XP bigger and the ME smaller. Will partition magic 6 work?? Thanks.
 
PowerQuest says it doesn't. Microsoft made some changes to NTFS with XP. You'll need to get PM7 to be fully compatible. Now have I tried it with PM6? Nope.
 
I have Drive Image Pro 4 which comes with Partition Magic Pro 6 (very slightly different than PM Regular 6), and PM Pro 6 will not even install under XP. When you try it you get "This application has a known problem with this version of windows and will be disabled".


More like this version of windows has a known problem with everything :|


Now you could *try* running PMPro 6 from within Windows ME or even DOS and use it to resize the partitions...I'm not sure how well that would work though...
On the one hand, I've never reformatted my second hard drive to "WinXP NTFS" I was using the drive exactly how it was formatted for Win2000 and WinXP read it just fine.
On the other hand, if PMPro6 won't run under WinXP, I would suggest that it's probably a bad idea to use it to resize XP's drive from a different OS.

While it may work, I would say you do so at your own risk.
 
PM6 will work on XP, as long as XP is installed on a FAT or FAT32 partition (I have used it).
I already had it installed on a separate boot of Windows 98SE, and only run PM6 after
exiting to DOS mode, or coming up from a boot floppy.

If XP is installed on a NTFS partition, then you will need to get PM7.
 
I have used PM6 in XP on both FAT32 and NTFS systems and it worked in both. I did have it installed on FAT32 before I switched to NTFS though, not sure if that made a difference.

rb56
 
Is there a downloadable trial or demo that I can get?The demo of this program is on downloads.com but they are saying the demo dosent let you partition.
 
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