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Thanks david I have purchased the PM 6.0 after anumber of reccs form others
on the list...very helpful
Charlie
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Wieringa" <david_wieringa_ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ChasWaring" <cwwaring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Ghost vs partion Magic
> At 07:19 PM 12/28/2000 -0600, ChasWaring wrote:
> >I'm moving files from one Hdisk to another and wish to
> >
> >- partition the disk
>
> Your active disk or a new one? If a new one, you can either FDisk it the
> manual way or use PartitionMagic (www.powerquest.com).
>
> If you are working on a disk that has your data on it, I would STRONGLY
> suggest a backup of everything critical before running PartitionMagic.
>
> I've used PartitionMagic and DriveImage (PowerQuest's drive imager /
> competing tool to Norton Ghost) quite a bit for a year or two. I've been
> pleased with both, but recently PM5.01 trashed the filesystems of 3 brand
> new Dell machines (I ran it blindly on 3 at a time since I've never had an
> issue before). I couldn't come up with a reason why. I've since used PM6
> (after making backups!) on a couple of the other machines from that order
> and all went fine.
>
> My machines have big disks and big memory. I almost always use the tools
> off of the floppy recovery disks. Often I've had to boot up on a Win98
> startup disk to avoid memory errors on some machines.
>
> I haven't ever used or seen Ghost, but my brother favored PowerQuest
> DriveImage about a year ago when he compared them.
>
> I've got DriveImage Pro 3.0 (actually 4.0 now), which comes with
> PartitionMagic. I've just recently learned how to boot on a network
floppy
> and run DriveImage from across the network -- and save the images across
> the network. This is very slick. Particularly when you need to make an
> image of a machine that only has one disk and one partition (ie from the
> factory).
>
> Basically, in case you don't know.... I don't know of any competing
> product for PowerQuest's PartitionMagic (repartition a drive while data is
> on it). As I understand, PowerQuest's DriveImage and Norton's Ghost are
> very similar (to make images/backups of a partition).
>
> >- move application files and have the registry know where they have moved
>
> Either PartitionMagic or DriveImage comes with a "remapping" tool -- I
> think it is PartitionMagic. I have never experimented with it
> though. Windows and Windows apps is a bit fussy for me to trust doing
> anything unsual.
>
> Personally what I do, is have all machines boot to C:. All apps are
> installed on C:. Then all machines have at least 1 more partition where I
> have all my data. This allows me to make backup images of my installation
> with DriveImage (C:), and if I restore I don't blow away any real data.
>
> Unfortunately, some apps like TradeStation don't let you control where
your
> templates and indicators sit. (ie can't move from C to D that I know of).
>
> >- copy the OS to the second disk and change it to master and reboot from
> >there.
> >
> >What utility would you suggest? Any Others?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >
> >Charlie
>
> david_wieringa@xxxxxxxx
> Software Engineer (contractor)
> Scottsdale, AZ / Grand Rapids, MI
>
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