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Part Magic
Version 8.0
You may find it helpful to watch the PartitionMagic Flash tutorial
before using PartitionMagic. You can display the Flash by clicking
Help > Flash Tutorial from the PartitionMagic main screen.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
----------------1. Back up Your System!
2. General Usage Notes
3. Known Issues - Windows NT/2000/XP only
4. Known Issues - Windows 9x only
5. Uninstalling Windows Me
6. PowerQuest's Storage Manager Newsletter
1. BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM!
----------------------Remember 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 Drive
Image(R). Drive Image is a disk imaging tool that lets you create
an image of your entire system that can easily be restored.
Having a backup lets you run PartitionMagic with the security
of knowing that you can get your system back up and running
if you run into problems.
If you think your computer has locked up, please be patient and
allow PartitionMagic to finish the operation.
- You should set up removable media drives so that they are the
last drives on your system. Drives are assigned priorities as
follows: primary master, primary slave, secondary master,
secondary slave. You should not have a fixed hard drive
set up as the secondary master if you have a removable media
drive set up as the primary slave. If you have two IDE
controllers, you should connect removable media drives to
the second controller, after any hard drives. If you have a
RAID configuration, disconnect any removable media (such as
a Zip drive) before using PartitionMagic. If you do not
configure removable media drives as the last drives, you
will see disk numbering inconsistencies in the PartitionMagic
interface, and the wizards will not work on your system.
- Bad Sector Checking is OFF by default. PartitionMagic ships
with bad sector checking turned OFF by default. Modern hard
disks are designed to avoid bad sectors automatically.
However, if you feel that bad sectors may be a problem on your
system, turn on bad sector checking (by unchecking the
appropriate boxes in the "Skip bad sector checks" list box in
Preferences). Turning on bad sector checking 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. Another way to verify that there are no bad
sectors on your disk is to run the operating system check
utility (CheckDisk or ScanDisk) and do a surface scan before
launching PartitionMagic.
- A non-Asian language version of PartitionMagic should never
be used on an Asian language version of Windows NT/2000/XP,
as this may cause corruption of filenames and partition/
volume set labels.
- You cannot use PQBoot for Windows (a utility included with
PartitionMagic) unless there is at least one primary
partition on the first hard disk.