Has anyone tried Partition Magic on WindowsXP drive?

[Cybordolphin]

Need a bigger C drive now that I have installed winowsXP....

Should I try using Partition magic?
Anyone tried using it yet with XP?

Thanks.

 

[Link]

I've used PM7. What a horrible experience! I almost lost everything.

 

[Cybordolphin]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww.

Oh perfect.

 

[bulldawg]

<< I've used PM7. What a horrible experience! I almost lost everything. >>



Ditto. And I did get to format for my troubles.:disgust:

 

[Mrburns2007]

Partition Commander by V is better than Partition Magic. It's more reliable and doesn't screw up like PM. I've used system commander 2000 for a long time and had no problems.


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[JMorton10]

PM 7 screwed up for me also. I was able to recover with chkdisc, but I would NEVER run PM without making an image of your drive first.

Drive Image version5 works great with XP & the new version of ntfs by the way.

 

[Cybordolphin]

Hmmm I think I have an older version of Drive Image...... wonder how it will do..?

Any other drive partitioning software that works with XP?

 

[Semimaker]

Partition magic 8 is now out.

I can not believe that they want another $49.95 for such a simple upgrade, they have done this since version 4.

At least power quest did issue an update for W2K (5.01). But is did take a 40Mb download!

 

[stingbandel]

Glad I don't use PM 7.

 

[Link]

PM8? Where? I don't see it at their web site.

 

[Semimaker]

I received an email from power quest about 3 days ago. I will try to find the link again, but the only real differnece is support for the next revision of NTFS used in WXP.

 

[Om]

Don't you mean Partition Magic 7? That's the one that just came out.

 

[MulLa]

I think you mean PM7 that just came out. As far as I am aware NTFS under w2k and XP are the same. I think the software industry really loves M$ for giving them a chance to release a whole load of new versions of XP compatible softwares! :frown:

 

[JMorton10]

>As far as I am aware NTFS under w2k and XP are the same.

No, there not. XP has a new version of ntfs. Ghost 2001 worked fine with the W2K version, it doesn't work with the XP version although the newest version of Drive Image does.

 

[mOrphine]

errm PM7 doesnt support winxp? it says on powerquest's website it does...

 

[CQuinn]

PM7 supports Windows XP.

I was able to use PM 6 on a WXP partition (FAT32) without data loss.

Link, can you describe your setup and what you were trying to do when it messed up?

I usually make a backup image before using PM on any boot drive, just in case something
goes wrong. But so far I haven't needed to do a restore when moving or resizing partitions.

 

[TruculentTucan]

I used PM6 from a friend's hdd to mine which was plugged in as a slave. I had winxp installed and created a 5 gig partition that had the xp on it, and a 25 gig that had my data. Worked like a charm.

 

[mOrphine]

perhaps the problem with PM lies with the newer version of ntfs that comes with winxp?

 

[JMorton10]

>errm PM7 doesnt support winxp? it says on powerquest's website it does

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I supports it, it just doesn't work very well.

I have used PM for years now & never before had a single problem with it. I have had PM7 cause problems on three different systems running XP now.

 

[mOrphine]

i've never had any problem with pm either... was actually thinking of using pm7 to change my partition size for winxp... *whew*

i kinda like pm though... hope powerquest releases an update for this

 

[JMorton10]

Me too, I've always liked that program.

 

[xsquid]

I find the best thing is to run a dual boot system and run partition magic from the other side. I run ME ans XP and run partition magic from the ME side.

 

[dc]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=568693

anyone have some insight/advice?
stupid partition magic 7. heh.

 

[MulLa]

So does XP use NTFS5.1? Then how come w2k can read XP NTFS just fine? Even if it changed it shouldn't be such a major change since w2k can still read it. I think it's just software houses wanting to cash in on new software / upgrades!