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Norton™ PartitionMagic® 8.0 Quick Start Guide Published May 2004 © 1994-2004 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. This product and/or its use may be covered by one or more of the following patents: 5,675,769; 5,706,472; 5,930,831; 6,088,778; 6,108,697; 6,108,759; 6,173,291; 6,178,487; 6,178,503; 6,185,575; 6,185,666; 6,253,300; 6,330,653; and 6,377,958. Additional patents may be pending.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1: Getting Started What is PartitionMagic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PartitionMagic System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installing PartitionMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Rescue Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Before Running PartitionMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Running PartitionMagic . . . . . . . . . . . .
Configuring BootMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Disabling BootMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Chapter 4: Service and Support Solutions Customer service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Support for old and discontinued versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscription policy . . . . . . . . . . . .
C H A P T E R 1 Getting Started This chapter includes the following information: • What is PartitionMagic? • PartitionMagic System Requirements • Installing PartitionMagic • Before Running PartitionMagic • Running PartitionMagic What is PartitionMagic? With Norton™ PartitionMagic®, you can quickly and easily create partitions on your hard disks for storing valuable information such as data files, applications, and operating systems.
PartitionMagic lets you secure your data by physically separating it from your operating system files. Separate partitions also make backups easy. You can use PartitionMagic to save your data to a separate partition, then back up the data files. PartitionMagic helps you reliably run multiple operating systems on the same computer.
Operating System Minimum RAM Windows Me 32 MB Pentium/150 MHz or compatible Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with SP6a applied 32 MB* Pentium/150 MHz or compatible Windows 2000 Professional 64 MB* Pentium/150 MHz or compatible Windows XP 128 MB* Pentium/233 MHz or compatible Minimum Processor * Resizing NTFS clusters on partitions over 120 GB in size requires 256 MB RAM. PartitionMagic supports hardware RAID level 0 (disk striping) and RAID level 5 (striping with parity).
Installing PartitionMagic You must have administrative privileges to install PartitionMagic on a Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP system. Installing PartitionMagic 8.0 will not overwrite a previous version, and it will not affect your existing partitions in any way. PartitionMagic 8.0 installs into its own directory by default. IMPORTANT! PartitionMagic must be installed on a local drive, not on a network drive. NOTE Before installing PartitionMagic 8.
Dynamic disks (disks you can create with the Windows 2000 or Windows XP Disk Management tool) are not supported. You cannot install PartitionMagic on a dynamic disk. Creating Rescue Diskettes You can run a DOS version of PartitionMagic or the BootMagic configuration program from the Norton PartitionMagic CD if your computer has the ability to boot from a CD. If your computer cannot boot from a CD, it is recommended that you create rescue diskettes at the end of the Norton PartitionMagic installation.
Running PartitionMagic IMPORTANT! PartitionMagic must be run from a local, uncompressed drive. You cannot run PartitionMagic from a network drive. To run from: Do this: Windows Start menu Click Start > Programs > Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 > Norton PartitionMagic 8.0. Windows Explorer From Windows, click Start > Programs > Windows Explorer. Then right-click any drive object, and click Norton PartitionMagic 8.0.
C H A P T E R 2 PartitionMagic Basics This chapter includes the following information: • PartitionMagic Main Window • Rescue Disk Main Window • Process Overview • Selecting a Hard Disk and Partition • Selecting an Operation • Undoing an Operation • Viewing Pending Operations • Applying Changes to Your System PartitionMagic Main Window The main window includes an action panel with shortcuts for common tasks and an overview of pending operations, a map of each disk, and a list of the partitions on the se
You can customize the main screen by clicking commands on the View menu. Note that the main screen is different if you run PartitionMagic from the rescue disks. See “Rescue Disk Main Window” on page 9. Shortcuts to tasks Disk map Pending operations Partition list Disk Map The disk map shows the partitions approximately to scale and also shows unallocated space (space not assigned to any partition). You can also display hard disks to scale by clicking View > Scale Disk Map.
There are triangle indicators to mark the 2 GB boot boundary and the 1024 cylinder limit. The boundary markers can help you as you create, move, or resize partitions, so you will not make primary partitions unbootable by accident. Partition List The partition list displays the following information about each partition: drive letter, volume label, file system type, size, amount of used and unused space in megabytes, status, and whether the partition is a primary or logical partition.
• Toolbar — gives you quick access to commonly used options and allows you to select the disk you want to operate on. • Partition information — (disk map and partition list) provides both a visual and text description of the partitions on the disk. • Status bar — shows you how many operations are pending; also includes a brief description of the currently selected option.
Selecting a Hard Disk and Partition You can select a partition without first selecting a hard disk. To select a partition, click it in the disk map or partition list on the main screen. To select a hard disk, click the title bar on the disk map, or click the disk in the partition list. There are two operations that can be performed on a hard disk: delete all the partitions or display information about the hard disk.
Removable Media and Dynamic Disks PartitionMagic is not designed to work on removable media or Windows 2000/XP dynamic disks. Selecting an Operation After you have selected a disk or a partition, you can select an operation using the action panel, toolbar, right-click menu, or menu bar. If an operation cannot be performed on the selected partition, the item appears dimmed on the menu and in the action panel. • Click one of the operations on the action panel or the toolbar.
Undoing an Operation To undo or reverse the last operation performed, click General > Undo Last Change on the menu bar, press , or click Undo at the bottom of the action panel. If you have performed an operation using a wizard, Undo Last Change will undo all the changes made by the wizard. To discard all the pending operations, click General > Discard all Changes, or press . Viewing Pending Operations PartitionMagic queues operations until you apply them.
From the list of pending operations, you can choose to undo the last change, discard all changes, apply all changes, or close the window. If you are running PartitionMagic from the rescue disks, you cannot modify pending operations from this window. Applying Changes to Your System As you complete tasks using the Partition menu (or the Operations menu if running from the rescue disks), the disk map and partition list reflect the changes you have made.
C H A P T E R 3 Using BootMagic This chapter includes the following information: • Introduction • BootMagic System Requirements • Installing BootMagic • Configuring BootMagic • Disabling BootMagic Introduction BootMagic® is a powerful disk-management tool that helps you run multiple operating systems on a single PC. Each time you start or restart your computer, BootMagic presents a list of operating systems you can boot to.
If you only occasionally change the active partition and do not want to use BootMagic, you can use PQBoot™ for Windows. PQBoot is a quick and easy way to switch between bootable primary partitions. You may also want to use PQBoot if you cannot use BootMagic easily because you only have NTFS partitions on your computer. For more information about PQBoot, see Chapter 7 of the PDF Norton PartitionMagic user guide.
2 Click BootMagic from the Norton PartitionMagic setup screen, then click Install to launch the BootMagic installation program. 3 Follow the on-screen instructions to install BootMagic. IMPORTANT! BootMagic can be installed to any FAT or FAT32 partition (primary or logical). If your system only has NTFS partitions, see “Installing BootMagic on an NTFS System” in the Norton PartitionMagic user guide. 4 After installation is complete, click Back > Exit to close the setup screen.
Configuring BootMagic BootMagic’s configuration program consists of two versions: one for DOS and one for Windows. Both versions have similar interfaces and offer the same functionality. You can start the BootMagic configuration program in the following ways: • In Windows, select Start > Programs > BootMagic 8.0 > BootMagic Configuration. • In DOS, run drive:\BTMAGIC.PQ\CONFIG.BAT. • On the PartitionMagic main screen, click Tools > BootMagic Configuration.
From this window, you can set a password for the configuration program, the BootMagic Menu, or specific menu items; add or remove an OS to the BootMagic Menu; modify an operating system’s BootMagic properties; set your default operating system; set the startup delay; or disable BootMagic. Each of these options are briefly covered in this chapter. You can also change the background bitmap. For further information about configuring BootMagic, see the BootMagic online help.
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Index Numerics F 1394 drive support 11 FireWire support 11 free space required to install BootMagic 16 A applying changes 14 Windows vs.
P PartitionMagic 2 partition list 9 asterisk (*) in, explained 9 status in 9 partition map 8 Partition menu 9 PartitionMagic system requirements 2 PartitionMagic, running 6 partitions applying changes to 14 data 17 deleting all 11 map in main window 8 selecting 11 status 9 pending changes 14 pending operations, viewing 13 physical disk, selecting 11 PQBoot for Windows 16 prerequisites 5 process overview 10 R removable media 12 requirements, system 2 rescue disks creating 5 system requirements 2 S select
