[ltp] Partition Magic or DrakX on A21m?

[Tod Harter]

I on the other hand tried and tried to repartition the drive on my A20p, 
tried Partition Magic, DrakX, FIPS, etc. Never got any of them to work for 
beans. Even after defragging the windows partition I'd either get a bunch of 
errors about partition table inconsistencies when trying to read or write to 
the partition table, or else whichever program I tried to use kindly informed 
me it oculd create a 3gig partition at the top of the disk and that was it 
(out of 20 gigs, of which 17 or so was free and unused by FAT32). 

Truth is that all these tools are the blackest of black magic. 

On Thursday 13 September 2001 12:46, you wrote:
> I have used Partition Magic in the past, and it's great.
>
> But, when I installed Mandrake 8.0, the inbuilt installer was quite able
> to do everything I required, and I now dual boot happily.
> (not that I use W98  by choice :-) )
>
> Richard
>
> Jimmy Freese wrote:
> >I have a A21m with windows 98 on it (FAT32). I want to
> >install Mandrake 8.0 on this machine and it comes with
> >a partition program called DrakX.
> >
> >Ideal situation is that I will get linux installed
> >without messing with my windows install and have a
> >dual boot system ready to go. Like a non-destructive
> >resize.
> >
> >I have heard good things about this partition magic
> >but was wondering if DrakX, or something else, would
> >do what I need.
> >
> >Any advice?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >Jimmy
> >Gold Coast, Australia
> >
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