Q:Partitioning and Partition Magic?
Dave Bowman
Partition Magic will allow you to do this; in fact it is a breeze. How
do I know; well, I just did it 2 days ago. I performed exactly what you
described, using Partition Magic, 2.3, with the patch. You can only make
another primary partition from an existing primary partition; not in an
extended partition. It wouldn't let you make that mistake anyway.
Good luck!
-Dave Bowman
Randy Olan
Hi,
I have Partition Magic 1.0 and would like to create another
Primary partition on my HD. I've currently got two Primary
partitions with Win95 and OS/2, and one extended partition with
two logical partitions. I've tried creating free space with
Partition Magic, but FDISK (DOS) can't see the free space
and hence can't create a partition. The Create Partition choice
on the Drives menu in OS/2 can see the free space but will only
create a logical partition.
Is there anyway I can create another Primary partition
without destroying my current setup? If not does
Partition Magic 3.0 allow you to do this?
TIA,
Randy
Al French
With Partition Magic 3.0 you can create, without losing your data, four
primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition.
Al French
alfr...@erols.com
Randy Olan <ro...@ibm.net> wrote in article
<5bud47$7...@mblisd.macquarie.com.au>...
> Hi,
>
> I have Partition Magic 1.0 and would like to create another
> Primary partition on my HD. I've currently got two Primary
> partitions with Win95 and OS/2, and one extended partition with
> two logical partitions.
>
Bernie Maier
Randy Olan <ro...@ibm.net> wrote:
>I have Partition Magic 1.0 and would like to create another
>Primary partition on my HD. I've currently got two Primary
>partitions with Win95 and OS/2, and one extended partition with
>Partition Magic, but FDISK (DOS) can't see the free space
>and hence can't create a partition. The Create Partition choice
>on the Drives menu in OS/2 can see the free space but will only
>create a logical partition.
>
>without destroying my current setup? If not does
>Partition Magic 3.0 allow you to do this?
From this description, I suspect that the free space you referring
to is free space within the extended partition. You need to resize
the extended partition so that it is just big enough to contain your
two logical partitions. This should result in some "real" free space
in which you can create a primary partition.
BTW, I've only really used version 3 of Partition Magic , so I can't
say what version 1 can do. However, since this is all fairly basic
partitioning functionality, I think this should work in version 1.
--
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Gail Koontz
In message <5bud47$7...@mblisd.macquarie.com.au> - ro...@ibm.net (Randy
Olan)20 Jan 1997 00:09:43 GMT writes:
:>
:>Hi,
:>
:>I have Partition Magic 1.0 and would like to create another
:>Primary partition on my HD. I've currently got two Primary
:>partitions with Win95 and OS/2, and one extended partition with
:>two logical partitions. I've tried creating free space with
:>Partition Magic, but FDISK (DOS) can't see the free space
:>and hence can't create a partition. The Create Partition choice
:>on the Drives menu in OS/2 can see the free space but will only
:>create a logical partition.
:>
:>Is there anyway I can create another Primary partition
:>without destroying my current setup? If not does
:>Partition Magic 3.0 allow you to do this?
:>TIA,
:>Randy
:>
I may be missing something here, but you can either have four primary
partitions or three primary and one extended. You already have the
latter, since boot manager counts as a primary partition. I don't see
how you can add another by any means. You could maybe reinstall OS/2 on
a new logical partition then reuse the primary partition it was in, but
that definitely destroys your existing setup.
Gail Koontz Retired in my home state
836 Mallard Rd. . . . and loving it!
Cocoa, FL 32926
gail....@quancon.com Team OS/2
Trevor Hemsley
:>
:>Hi,
:>
:>I have Partition Magic 1.0 and would like to create another
:>Primary partition on my HD. I've currently got two Primary
:>partitions with Win95 and OS/2, and one extended partition with
:>two logical partitions. I've tried creating free space with
:>Partition Magic, but FDISK (DOS) can't see the free space
:>and hence can't create a partition. The Create Partition choice
:>on the Drives menu in OS/2 can see the free space but will only
:>create a logical partition.
:>
:>Is there anyway I can create another Primary partition
:>without destroying my current setup? If not does
:>Partition Magic 3.0 allow you to do this?
I'd guess that you've hit the limit on the number of partitions you can have
on a single disk. The partition table has space enough for four entries and
you can either have them all as primary partition entries or you can have
three primary partitions and one extended partition containing logical drives.
You currently have the two primary partitions you mention containing Win95 and
OS/2 and then you have the primary partition you don't mention containing Boot
Manager. The remaining partition table entry is used for the extended
partition.
Trevor Hemsley
(Trevor-...@dial.pipex.com or 75704...@compuserve.com)
Randy Olan
In article <5c11bg$i...@hamlet.ot.com.au>, blurk@ says...
>Where did the original poster mention anything about boot manager?
Sorry I failed to mention that I have boot manager installed.
Thanks for everyones' responses they were very informative.
Cheers,
Randy
Bernie Maier
Gail Koontz <gail....@quancon.com> wrote:
[...]
>I may be missing something here, but you can either have four primary
>partitions or three primary and one extended. You already have the
>latter, since boot manager counts as a primary partition. I don't see
Where did the original poster mention anything about boot manager?
Yes, if they have boot manager installed, then they cannot add other
primary partition to their setup. If not, then they should be able
to add one as per my previous post.
