Re: [tlug] Partitions and Partition Magic

["Micheal E Cooper" <mecooper@example.com>]

Finally a situation in which I can be of help to the TLUGgers!

I have used Partition Magic for years... literally. There is no problem
using Partition Magic with a Japanese OS. The only problem you would run
into would be converting partitions from Fat to NTFS or the other way
around. Only the Japanese/ Chinese/ <other multi-byte languages> can do that
without messing up the text. Seems kind of silly, but it's true. I think
that might be the incompatibility you are talking about. I cannot imagine
that the new version of PM is less functional than the old one.

I am presently using Windows 2000 and RedHat, and I did all my partitioning
with PM5 English up until a few months ago. Now I use PM6 Japanese, but I
don't think the English version will cause problems. However, you cannot use
PM6 or earlier with XP. It won't let you install, I think. You will have to
get a PM that is compatible with XP. Also, I don't know what PM6 or earlier
will do with Ext3 partitions. Ext3 is not on the list of options for version
6. I think PM6 or earlier will think Ext3 is a disk format error and try to
correct it. Just a warning.

Micheal E Cooper

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Myers" <q90004@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: [tlug] Partitions and Partition Magic


> Warning only semi Linux Related: <sorry>
>
> I bought the English version of Partition Magic but then while reading
> the readme (trust me a unusual occurrence) I discovered that It doesn't
> work with the Japanese OS (other than Linux OS) and so I can partition
> it and put both Linux and the Other OS on the same hard drive as I had
> wanted to do. Any recommendations? Anyone out there tried this with
> Partition Magic & a Japanese OS?
>
> Dan
>
>