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[clocker]

Ah,
So it's big advantage is the universiality of it's OS coverage then, eh?

Was I correct in assuming that the end result ( if you can get there&#33 is the same though?

[balamm]

Actually, no. There are 2 different formats for ntfs and slight differences in some others. Ext3 for example. Your operating system may or may not recognize the formatting done by another app or it may accept the errors without reporting them.

If you partition with windows 2000 and try to install XP on that partition, XP will most likely want to redo it. They use different block sizes. In most cases it won't matter but we do like perfection don't we!

In regular partiton magic, you'd need a whole toolbox full of all the different builds right back to PM 3 in order to suit all OS's.
HP winME for example, won't allow partitoning the drive with PM 7 or 8. It will work with 6 though. What the difference there is, I don't know. I didn't have time to investigate, only find a tool that would do the job. Every time!

[Virtualbody1234]

What's the name of this secret partitioning tool?


and...

Are these hotswappable?

[balamm]

looks like curly maple and oak (OAK ) refference > http://www.eetimes.com/news/97/984news/law.html

[clocker]

As long as we're drifting further afield...
What are you're preferences as far as block size goes?
Intuitively it would seem that the smaller the better... more efficient usage without having a lot of partially filled blocks laying about.
Is this true?

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@16 December 2003 - 10:42
What's the name of this secret partitioning tool?

If you guys don't want to say then PM me please.

[clocker]

It's a secret.

Check your box...

Don't tell anybody else.

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by clocker@16 December 2003 - 11:49
It's a secret.

Check your box...

Don't tell anybody else.

Ok. I won't.

Thanks clocker.

[clocker]

Thank Balamm.
I understand how this may be a more efficient tool for him, as he apparently deals with every OS known to man, but I've already run into a prob just reading the .inf file.
You have to transfer this to a floppy and run it from there.

I don't HAVE a floppy installed ATM.

[DWk]

give it to me too balamm thx