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PowerQuest(R) PartitionMagic(R)
Version 5.0
Versions for DOS, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT
Copyright 1994-1999, PowerQuest Corporation. All rights reserved.
U.S. patents 5,675,769; 5,706,472; and 5,930,831. Other patents
pending in the U.S.A. and elsewhere. PowerQuest and
PartitionMagic are registered trademarks of PowerQuest
Corporation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------
1. Back up Your System!
2. PartitionMagic 5.0 Enhancements
3. Known Issues
4. Minimum System Requirements
5. General Usage Notes
6. Security Problems Using Shared Drive Letters Under Windows 95/98
7. Correction to User Guide
8. Partition Magician Newsletter
1. BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM!
-----------------------
Don't forget to back up your hard drives before using PartitionMagic.
While PartitionMagic has been thoroughly tested, power failures,
operating system bugs, and hardware design bugs can put your data
at risk. BEFORE USING ANY UTILITY THAT MAKES SUCH EXTENSIVE CHANGES
TO YOUR HARD DISK, YOU SHOULD BACK UP YOUR DATA!
To back up your system, we recommend using PowerQuest's Drive
Image(R) or Drive Image(R) Pro. Drive Image is a state-of-the-art
disk imaging tool that allows you to create an image of your entire
system (an exact sector-for-sector copy) that can easily be restored.
Having a backup allows you to run PartitionMagic with the security
of knowing that you can get your system back up and running
quickly if you run into problems.
2. PARTITIONMAGIC 5.0 ENHANCEMENTS
----------------------------------
A. Ability to merge FAT and FAT32 partitions
--------------------------------------------
You can use PartitionMagic to merge FAT and FAT32 partitions
that are adjacent to each other on a hard disk. You should be
careful not to merge two primary partitions that include
operating systems.
B. Improved interface
---------------------
Partitions on the partition map are color-coded, so
you can identify the file system type at a glance.
The partition map in the main window includes
indicators for the 2 GB boot code boundary and the
1024 cylinder limit. Each partition on the partition
map includes color coding to indicate used and unused
space.
C. Option to hide wizard buttons in the main window
---------------------------------------------------
To hide wizard buttons, click Wizards > Hide Wizard
Buttons on the menu bar.
D. More options for converting file systems for a partition
-----------------------------------------------------------
In addition to the conversions available in PartitionMagic
4.0, you can now convert NTFS partitions to FAT, NTFS to
FAT32, primary to logical, and logical to primary.
E. Improved wizards
-------------------
There is a new wizard to merge adjacent FAT and FAT32
partitions. The Create Partition wizard incorporates
two wizards from PartitionMagic 4.0. You can now use
the Create Partition wizard to prepare to install a
new operating system. There is also a new Resize
partitions wizard that makes it easier to resize
partitions.
F. Ability to view pending operations
-------------------------------------
You can view a list of pending operations before you
apply them on your machine. Click Operations > View
Operations Pending to display the list.
G. Improved online help
-----------------------
New interface and improved table of contents make help
topics easier to find. Topics have been divided into
"About" topics for conceptual information and step topics
for detailed instructions about tasks. You can also search
for help topics using the help index. You can find topics
that are related to the one you are reading by clicking
the See Also button at the top of the help toolbar.
H. Automatic error fixing
-------------------------
The automatic error fixing feature in PartitionMagic 5.0
detects most common partition table errors and can correct
them automatically. A number of computer systems are
shipped from the manufacturer with partition table errors,
including partitions that overlap, extend past the end of
the disk, or have CHS/LBA conflicts. The automatic fixing
feature will detect and correct these types of errors.
I. Support for NTFS 5
---------------------
You can perform all PartitionMagic 5.0 operations on
NTFS 5 partitions.
J. Improved interface for scripting (Pro version only)
------------------------------------------------------
PartitionMagic 5.0 includes a new Script Builder that
makes it easy to create scripts. The Script Builder
includes extensive online help.
3. KNOWN ISSUES
---------------
A. Running other applications with PartitionMagic
-------------------------------------------------
Under Windows 95/98 and Windows NT, you should not run
PartitionMagic while any other applications are running.
Close any running applications before starting PartitionMagic.
B. OS Environments supported by PartitionMagic
----------------------------------------------
PartitionMagic runs on DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, and
Windows NT Workstation 4.0. Versions for each of these
environments are included on the installation CD.
PartitionMagic does not run on Windows NT Server. PowerQuest
markets another partitioning product, ServerMagic (R), that
is specifically designed to support the Windows NT Server
and Novell NetWare server environments.
Windows NT 3.51 and OS/2 are not supported by native versions
of PartitionMagic but are supported by the DOS rescue disk
version of PartitionMagic.
C. Bad Sector Checking is ON by default
---------------------------------------
Be aware that PartitionMagic ships with Bad Sector Checking
turned ON by default in Preferences. This ensures that data
is not moved or copied to bad disk sectors. However, this
causes the Create, Move, and Resize operations to slow down
considerably.
The quality of modern disks is such that bad sectors are rare.
Furthermore, most modern computers can determine when a sector
is bad; if this happens, the computer automatically marks the
sector as bad (so it will never be used) and then uses an
alternate sector.
If you feel confident that there are no bad sectors on your
system, and you want to improve the performance of
PartitionMagic, then turn off Bad Sector Checking (by checking
the appropriate boxes in the "Skip bad sector checks" listbox
in Preferences). Another way to verify that there are no bad
sectors on your disk is to run the Windows 95/98 ScanDisk
utility and do a surface scan before launching PartitionMagic.
D. Backing up your BOOT.INI file in Windows NT
----------------------------------------------
PartitionMagic for Windows NT needs to temporarily replace your
BOOT.INI file after performing the disk manipulation operations.
It restores the file once it has finished performing the
operations and rebooting. If a failure occurs during the NT
reboot phase, your BOOT.INI file may not be restored properly.
It is a good idea to back up your BOOT.INI file before running
PartitionMagic for Windows NT.
E. Volume sets and stripe sets on Windows NT
--------------------------------------------
Currently PartitionMagic does not support moving or copying of
Windows NT volume or stripe sets.
F. MOUSE.COM issue running PartitionMagic under Windows 3.x
-----------------------------------------------------------
By default, Windows 3.x disables MOUSE.COM in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
file and MOUSE.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS file. This makes Windows
3.x use its own proprietary mouse driver. When PartitionMagic
is run from Windows 3.x with this situation, MOUSE.COM is
never called, and PartitionMagic runs without a mouse. You
can have a mouse with PartitionMagic under Windows 3.x if
the MOUSE.COM mouse driver is loaded before Windows 3.x is
loaded; this may require you to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT or
CONFIG.SYS file.
G. Uninstalling PartitionMagic under Win3.x
-------------------------------------------
The "PowerQuest" program group is not removed when you
uninstall PartitionMagic under Win3.x. You can delete
the program group manually.
H. Mixed IDE/SCSI drive configurations under Windows NT
-------------------------------------------------------
In a configuration with mixed IDE and SCSI hard drives, Windows NT
does not always see the boot drive as the first physical hard
drive. PartitionMagic displays drives in the order Windows NT
reports them. As a result, you may see your boot device as
Drive 1, 2, etc. This does not cause problems for
PartitionMagic except when setting a new active partition.
Also, PartitionMagic may incorrectly report that there is no
active partition on your system. To change your active
partition, be sure that you identify which drive is the boot
drive.
With this configuration, there is the possibility your BOOT.INI
file can be corrupted; therefore, we recommend you back up your
BOOT.INI file before running PartitionMagic.
I. Windows NT may improperly detect the size of large hard drives
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Windows NT 4.0 may incorrectly report the size of hard drives
larger than 10GB. Most often it reports them as 8GB drives.
This problem may be solved by installing Service Pack 3, or
(if you have Service Pack 1 or 2) installing the patch
ata-fixi.exe from the following URL:
ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/hotfixes-postSP3/atapi-fix/
J. Color palette issues installing Windows NT version
-----------------------------------------------------
If you run the Windows NT version of PartitionMagic immediately
after installation, occasionally you may see color palette
problems. We recommend rebooting Windows NT before running
PartitionMagic for the first time.
K. PartitionMagic 5.0 produces old-style uppercase table
--------------------------------------------------------
The Windows 95/98 and MS-DOS versions of PartitionMagic format
NTFS file systems with the uppercase table used by NT 4.0
before Service Pack 4. When Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4
or Windows 2000 Professional are started after an NTFS file
system is created by PartitionMagic, they detect the old-style
uppercase table and change it to the new version.
L. UNC Paths Do Not Work for Installation
-----------------------------------------
If you install PartitionMagic from a network directory, you must
have a drive letter mapped to the directory. UNC (universal
naming convention) paths will not work for installation. If you
do not have a drive letter mapped to the directory, you will
receive error #0 or error #1 and installation will fail.
4. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
------------------------------
PartitionMagic for Windows 95/98
--------------------------------
- 12 MB free hard drive space
- 16 MB of RAM
- Windows 95a or later (Windows 95b required for FAT32 support)
- VGA compatible display
- Intel/486 DX or later (33 MHz)
- 4x CD-ROM drive
- 3.5" Floppy (high-density)
PartitionMagic for Windows NT
-----------------------------
- 12 MB free hard drive space
- 16 MB of RAM
- Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
NOTE: Windows NT 3.51 is not supported by native versions
of PartitionMagic, but is supported by the DOS GUI (rescue
disk) version.
- VGA compatible display
- Intel/486 DX or later (33 MHz)
- 4x CD-ROM drive
- 3.5" Floppy (high-density)
DOS (rescue disks)
------------------
- 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for PartitionMagic to operate on NTFS or
FAT32 partitions)
- MS-DOS 5.0 (6.2 or later recommended) or compatible
- VGA compatible display'
- 486 DX or later (33 MHz)
- 3.5" floppy (high-density)
5. GENERAL USAGE NOTES
----------------------
- If you run PartitionMagic from DOS: Turn off third-party disk
caches. Deactivate or unload any TSR programs that access or
modify the partitions being changed. Do not run PartitionMagic
from a compressed drive.
- If you run PartitionMagic from Windows 3.x: After using
PartitionMagic, it is normal to get an error message when starting
Windows 3.1 stating that the swap file is corrupt. Windows 3.1
recognizes that disk utilities may move the clusters of the swap
file. When a move is detected, Windows displays an error message.
To fix the swap file, click the 386 Enhanced icon in the Control
Panel, then the Virtual Memory button. Delete the swap file and
recreate it.
- Be aware that there is no undo if you merge two FAT or FAT32
partitions. You must be particularly careful not to merge two
primary partitions that include operating systems, as your
computer will not be bootable if you do.
6. SECURITY PROBLEMS USING SHARED DRIVE LETTERS UNDER WINDOWS 95/98
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Be aware that under Windows 95/98, if you are using shared privileges
to share drives and you add or remove a partition (causing the drive
letters to change), you may experience some security problems.
The following is a possible example of a security problem sharing
drive letters under Windows 95/98 after partitioning your hard drive.
Assume that before you partitioned your hard drive, your CD-ROM drive
had shared privileges for drive D:. After you added a partition,
your CD-ROM became drive E:. However, your shared privileges would
still be assigned to drive D. Therefore, you could potentially be
sharing information from your D: partition that you do not wish to
share.
To resolve this problem, you may want to check (and if necessary,
reset) your shared privileges in Windows 95/98 after you have added
or removed a partition. You will not be affected by this situation if
you share a directory and its parent directory and its parent drive
letter changes because the shared privilege would be lost.
7. CORRECTION TO USER GUIDE
---------------------------
There is an error in Chapter 6 under "Generating Diagnostic Reports
with PartitionInfo." The third paragraph, which begins "The first
time you run..." should be replaced with the following:
Every time you run PartitionMagic on your machine, it creates a
snapshot file PQ_DEBUG.TXT that includes information about all the
partitions on your machine. The file is saved in the Windows\System
folder (for Windows 95/98) or the %system root%\system32 directory
(for Windows NT). The PQ_DEBUG.TXT file may be beneficial for
PowerQuest technical support if you call PowerQuest for help
resolving problems with PartitionMagic.
8. PARTITION MAGICIAN NEWSLETTER
--------------------------------
PowerQuest has a free monthly electronic newsletter that is dedicated
to official announcements, tips, and techniques for PowerQuest
products. You can view the newsletter online at
www.powerquest.com/newsletter.
=======================================================================
PowerQuest can be reached at:
Voice: 801-437-8900
Fax: 801-226-8941
Web site: www.powerquest.com
E-mail: magic@powerquest.com