Thanks. In one aspect I like that type of easy answer "upgrade". On the other side, I'm not too happy with paying for another copy of PM when they have yet to answer any of my emails. Paying for no support doesn't make me a happy camper. As far as not using Boot Magic. Sure I will use it. I don't have any operating systems that require a primary partition. I do use XP and have it in a primary dual primary partitions so when a copy gets corrupted (viruses), I can just overlay it with a "protected" copy. I have been mostly an OS/2 user for the last 8 years, so I really don't have much experience with viruses. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Marino Fernandez wrote:
--- Tom Duerbusch
wrote: When I boot XP, I can bring up Partition Magic up. However PM complains about an invalid boot sector and wants to fix it. I seem to recall reading that if PM is allowed to fix it, PM will not be able to boot Linux. There is something else you have to do first before PM is allowed to "fix" things.
I had a similar problem with XP in the primary partition and Mandrake 9.0 in one of the logical partitions, using lilo as bootloader. PM 7 compains about the boot sector because it does not support ext3 or any other journalized filesystems... if you let it fix the boot sector lilo won't be able to boot into linux anymore.
However PM 8 does support ext3 fs, does not complain about the boot sector and lets you resize your partitons, including the linux ones (PM 7.0 wont let you do that even if you fix the boot sector); now I use PM 8 with XP in the primary, and SuSE 8.1 in one of the logical partitions, with grub as bootloader. I do not know if PM 8 supports other journalized fs (other than ext3).
So my advice is... get Partiton Magic 8, or use another app... (ask one of the linux gurus about those "another app"s).
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