Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Ralf A. Quint
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Karen Lewellen
hi Felix, was that a typo below, as in 2 tb? Indeed Dr dos does have an approximately 2 gb limit for the primary dos partition. this dell laptop has a disk size of about 8 gig, so we partitioned the rest into amounts smaller than 3 gig, since my best understanding is that it can swing 4 gig. Ho

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread john s wolter
Yet another is System Rescue at http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage . It's a LINUX based LiveCD that has an amazing number of utilities. It includes some of the previously mentioned programs and has documentation. It also has an X-Windows GUI interface which you start using by typin

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread userbeitrag
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone? Date:Friday, 05. October 2012 From:Santiago Almenara To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Likely if you had it you'

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Carl Spitzer
I think the latest version in my toolkit is 7.0 but I also use gparted which is a bootable Linux distro which in look and feel does the same thing only much faster. A whole 160 gig drive was done in 30 minutes including time to decide how to break it up. CWSIV On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 23:49 -0400,

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Bret Johnson
I personally use Ranish Partition Manager most of the time: http://www.ranish.com/part It's not been updated in a long time, but it's always worked well for me -- much better than FDISK. -- Don't let slow site performa

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Santiago Almenara
Karen: Why not use GParted? It's free. Santiago On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012-10-04 23:49 (GMT-0400) Karen Lewellen composed: > > > I realize I tend to wonder through the room and then find my corner again > > smiles. > > Anyway, I am wondering if any of you may