I need to move XP partition

[Rick]

Hey...I got PM7 and I it is the only thing I know of to use in order to move create another bootable partition on my HD. What I am afraid of is what I have gotten before. Try to put another OS on the same HD and it wants to move XP...when you move XP..everything goes to crap! I have seen where Lou said to boot from floppy and use the dos version of PM7. I tried this but it wont' boot up right...I get an error every time. Any suggestions?

Rick:rolleyes:

[LS_Dragons]

Hey Rick - I am not sure about an exact answer to your issue. I have always read (and my own experience has proven) that the best dual boot scenario for a Win 9x plus Win NT type situation is to always install the 9x first - then add the NT dual boot after. A pretty easy solution to follow if you have already installed NT (XP) is to simply add a second hard drive. Unplug the XP drive and install 9x on the 'new' drive and then plug the XP drive back in making it in the 2nd position (D). This will keep it from totally getting screwed up and you simply edit the boot.ini file to provide the choice of 9x or XP at boot.

If you are talking about some OS other than 9x as 'the other' I fear I can offer no help. Haven't gotten around to playing with linux or any others yet.

LS

[Guest LouCypher]

[b:6f46bf33ff]Norton Ghost[/b:6f46bf33ff] will also move and resize the partitions on the fly, from one HD to another only (I think). Partition Magic 7 will do it, but I wouldn't try to do it with the Win32 version. I booted from a Windows 98 startup disk and had copied over everything in the PQMAGICDOS directory to a FAT32 partition on the HD I was changing. Once I got a command prompt from the boot disk, I changed to D:DOS (where I had copied the PM7 DOS program) and ran PQMAGIC to change the partition sizes.

You're problem might be a little bit more complicated, especially *IF* the partitions get different ID assignments. You have to make sure which ever partition XP looks to boot from in BOOT.INI is the same paritition ID AFTER the move. Otherwise you'll get an NTLDR error and it won't boot. You won't lose data, you just have to fix it. It's a lot harder on an NTFS partition, but not impossible.

IIRC, PM7 has a hidden file in the DOS subdirectory, something .RTC that you have to make sure is on the disk along with the rest of the DOS programs to make sure it will run, otherwise PQMAGIC will give you an error. It took me a little while to figure that out. Make sure "View Hidden/System Files" is ON when you drap and drop the DOS directory to copy it.