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to: Randall Parker
from: vwheeler
date: 2005-01-01 15:17:34
subject: Re: Go from NT to Win2k and increase partition size?

From: vwheeler 

I did my NT4 with an older version (4 or 5) of Partition Magic. PM will not
run in NT however it works fine from the bootable floppy/CD. The only
problem I had was the Boot.ini file PM modified it adjusting for the 
additional partitions.


Randall Parker wrote:
> Geo,
>
> I have 1.73 Gigs used on the C: drive. How many CDs would that take? 3?
> For some reason I was expecting CDs to be too small for the job. But
> maybe not.
>
> DriveImage: It uses .NET and they do /not/ list NT as a supported OS.
> See here:
>
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=19356&subs
ectionid=373&subsubsectionid=65
>
>
> Worse yet, they do not appear to sell DriveImage any more. PowerQuest
> was bought by Symantec and now the link to DriveImage 7 resolves to a
> Ghost page. Check out here:
>    http://www.powerquest.com/
>
> Norton Ghost doesn't list NT as supported either:
>    http://www.powerquest.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
>
> Partition Magic does list NT as supported:
>    http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
>
> So do I have any other choices besides PartitionMagic?
>
> Geo wrote:
>
>> use ghost or driveimage to backup to CD, install new drive, restore
>> from the
>> drive image and it should allow you to make any or all of the partitions
>> larger, then upgrade to W2K.
>>
>> That's what I did with my laptop when moving from a 40g to an 80g drive
>> except instead of CD I used one of those external USB drives as the image
>> device.
>>
>> Geo.
>>

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