You may want to look at a product called "DriveWorks" by VCom.
It does backups,copies,resizing and moving of partions.  I have
not had a problem with it.

Regards,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 11:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Win2000 partitions


At 11:28 AM 12/8/2001 -0500, Pete Osborne wrote:
>On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:01, Tom Brandt wrote:
> > I have seen Partition Magic clobber people's partitions, so be careful
when
> > using it. Back everything up. (or, since we're on an a grammar kick,
back
> > up everything)
>
>I've had it create some pretty quirky partitions with win98. After, making
>the changes and installing Progeny Linux, it would not mount the windows
>paritition for some reason, I couldn't get it to work until I compiled a
2.4
>kernel. (and yes, the fat32 driver was loaded)

In one case I saw, someone tried to repartition some logical drives on a
Win2K machine. The partitions were ntfs. Every single file on one of the
drives was gone after Partition Magic was done.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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