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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
 Posted - 06 Nov 2002 : 12:34:46
Hi all,
Does anyone here know of a utility that can create and resize HFS partitions without destroying the data on them, like Partition Magic does on the PC? It's really annoying to have to move all the files to another hard drive to change partitions and then move everything back. And then you don't know if it will work or if you lost anything in the process.Thanks for any info. And we march on! The Lightning Stalker |
Flash
Full Member
Australia
637 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 02:48:03
As fas as I know there is nothing like that for the Mac (and for that matter it's a dangerous operation on the PC anyway. Partition Magic - it's magic if it does not completely screw your disk!)cheers
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oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 06:09:51
IIRC, FWB HD Toolkit will do it. They shipped a light version with LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 that could resize your Mac partition.As for PC partition resizing, use Diskeeper to do a complete defrag and then run fips.exe from a boot disk. It's worked fine for me. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 07 Nov 2002 : 21:27:38
Thanks, oldmacman.As for Partition Magic, I've used it a few times and it's never screwed up any partitions on my PCs. I have heard that it could, though, especially if your power goes out half way through the resizing process. Always back up if your life is on that hard drive, though! Except if you're like me and live dangerously. It's not really important to me if anything does go wrong. I'm not afraid of starting over again from scratch. It's good practice  The Lightning Stalker |
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