moving partition boundary

[dan sawyer]

All,

I am upgrading systems. In the past I used Partitionmagic to
resize partitions; it worked well. I have lost the key and
cannot move it to the new system. So I was stuck.

I resorted to the club. The new system was win 98 loaded
onto one large partition. I simply deleted it and readded it
into a new smaller one. (yes this works). I then proceeded
to install a fresh copy of Linux. At the appropriate time I
added Linux partitions in the free space.

Every thing is ok except the original win 98 still has a
file system and internal file structure for the full disk.
This makes using it scary.

Question: What does VM use for protection; the real values
from the partition table or the assumed OS values?

I have ordered a new copy of Partition Magic. However is
there another way cause win 98 to re-structure its internal
tables?

Thanks,
Dan