At 02:09 PM 10/5/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: >Yes I do realize partition magic is still legal, but not so sure about its >availability free for dos, because its new owners state as of July 2011 >they are no longer offering partition magic at all.
That doesn't matter at all. It's still copyrighted software and if the copyright owner doesn't distribute it anymore, tough nuts... There is legally no such thing as "Abandonware", the term that is floated by some to advocate (unrightfully though) that it is ok to distribute such software freely... >There is a link for a free partition magic on the partition wizard >site, the replacement product >for partition magic, but it is not directing me clearly in lynx. Welcome to the 21st century! ;-) >Still I will check out offerings you present here. your note gives me an >idea, perhaps shifting the primary dos partition slightly so it is closer to >that 2 gig window, which is why no data loss is important. GParted (and off-shoots)is your best bet, though I am not sure that they (or any other Open Source project) can reliably resize data partitions, at least on non-FAT partitions involved, without data loss... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
