setting up partitions with Partition Magic

[mcennis3]

I'm pretty new to Partition Magic (and partitioning in general). I need to set up 98se, NT which will be upgraded to 2000, and XP as primary partitions with room for the 4th primary partition. I believe they need to be in the first 2000mb of the 60 gig hard drive, how do I accomplish this? Also, can you access a logical drive using both
98se in FAT32 and XP in NTFS? Do you setup primary partitions and logical partitions at the same time and then just make a partition active and install an OS? How do you install multi OS on so little space? Thanks

I need to go from nt to 2000 to get 2000 to recognize a hardware driver...been through it and it was the only way it worked.

[David]

I would be tempted to do it with fdisk, if you are starting from scratch. I don't think they all have to be primary partitions - I may be wrong.

[sb-pimp]

I have used partitionmagic and it simple rocks. You can make a new partition without formating rock on. Only 1 downside is the time it takes to make this one partition.

[phungilax]

i have had prior experience with partition magic. partition magic is more useful for resizing partitions than making them. i would just use fdisk and start from scratch. however, if you know how to use partition magic and do not feel like using fdisk, by all means use it

[turd]

hope this helps and check on what i say its been a while since i messed with multibooting, i just use many computers and vmware when i want to get kinky, but man it was for me just try and try and try and then get it working, i messed with hardwiring jumpers, lilo, bootstar, bootmagic(part of partitionmagic) to name a few good ones. and always for me it was never faultless whenever i went beyond a dual system it just seemed to take work-of course in the end i usually would get it the way i wanted, then start something new

well you can try going in and installing with f disk, just divide your disk up into 4 and start with the oldest to newest

put nt on first
then 98
then update your nt
then xp
then add your partition magic and add your fourth partition by resizing and booting into 98 and letting it format that partition to fat

that fat partition will be accessable by both the fat(98) and ntfs(xp,2k)

a .wave is a .wave and regardless of what os file system you edit it on it will still be a .wav and seen by all, it will however still have the limits of the os it runs on, when ran: size etc.

ntsp4 and nt 5(2k,xp) can read(access) fat and you can push and pull files between fat and ntfs when logged in from the ntfs formated os of a dual boot,
on a dual boot system when logged in to the fat system you will not be seeing your NTFS formated partition

[mcennis3]

Thanks alot...that is what I was looking for. I'll try tomorrow

[mcennis3]

Finally got everything working. After months of e-mailing the sound card company and calling them a couple of times, the tech finally helped (they claim they didn't get the e-mails...hummm). I had tried this fix but obviously messed up an operation along the way.
To get DSL modem, Card D+ soundcard, and Opcode 8port se midi interface and all my music editing software working in 98se I went to PNP/PCI Config. and PNP OS INSTALLED....NO. Resources Controlled....Manual. IRQ RESOURCES...IRQ10 assigned to ISA LEGACY (this was the IRQ with soundcard/modem conflict). PIRQ_1 assigned to IRQ10. This forced the DSL modem to IRQ 5.
I don't need to install the other OSs. Only 3 months to find a 2 minute fix...knew it was out there somewhere. Thanks for all the help

[Oni]

Partition Magic does not like NTFS volumes. No matter what the box sais. I tried it once . . . the key word being once. Never again.

[phungilax]

you can use partition magic to partition a drive which the program is not installed on right. Like if i buy a new hard drive, partition magic will be able to detect the slave drive and make pirmary/extended/logical drives?

[diehrd]

I have used par mag many times.The interface is easy and it performs flawlessly.Fat or Ntfs.

If you read the help file it will guide you through each partition creation.And ask you as you move through it questions and ask confirming questions i love it and can honestly say it is totaly user friendly.

[turd]

followed your other post on this, glad u got it fixed, finally.