User manual POWERQUEST PARTITIONMAGIC 8.0

[. . . ] PartitionMagic 8. 0 ® PowerQuest ® Includes PowerQuest® BootMagic® and PowerQuest® DataKeeperTM User Guide PowerQuest® PartitionMagic® 8. 0 User Guide Published September 2002 © 1994-2002 PowerQuest 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. Please refer to www. powerquest. com/legal for additional information about PowerQuest's patents. The entire risk of the use or the result of the use of this software and documentation remains with the user. No part of this documentation may be reproduced in any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, except as expressed in the Software License Agreement. [. . . ] · Index of access control lists - A list of all files that have specific access rights assigned to them. · FAST index file - This file is sometimes created on Windows 2000 computers. · Old versions of files - NTFS has the ability to keep versions of files, however, only the current version of the file is converted and saved. PowerQuest PartitionMagic 75 Warning No Warning Description The conversion is allowed. The most basic NTFS partition still gives files more features than are found in FAT or FAT32. When Windows NT 4. 0 is used to copy files from an NTFS partition to a FAT partition, no warning is given about the features you are losing. Also, the conversion will not give you a warning about specific features that cannot be converted. These features include: · Standard journal file (only used internally by NTFS) - This file is a transaction log of changes to the NTFS file system. · NTFS-specific file attributes - NTFS and FAT both have standard file attributes, such as Read-only, Archive, Hidden, and System. After conversion, however, these additional file attributes will be lost. · NTFS-specific file dates - The last edit date is converted to the FAT date. After conversion, the creation date, last access date, and last edit date (date change only) will be lost. · Reliable change journal - This journal file is used by Windows 2000 and Windows XP. After conversion, this file will be lost. Converting Partitions to Logical or Primary You might want to convert a primary partition to a logical partition if you have reached the limit of primary partitions on your hard disk. If you create a logical partition, PartitionMagic will automatically place it in an extended partition. You can then create more logical partitions within that extended partition, expanding the maximum number of partitions on the disk. You might want to convert a logical partition to a primary partition if you plan to install an operating system on it. If you convert an active primary partition to logical (such as your Windows NT/2000/XP system partition), your computer will not boot from the hard drive. 5 Select the partition you want to convert. 6 On the toolbar Partition Convert. 76 Chapter 5: Converting Partitions The Convert Partition dialog appears. 7 Click either Primary or Logical. 8 Click OK. You cannot convert from primary to logical if another primary partition exists between the chosen partition and an existing logical partition. You cannot convert from logical to primary if the conversion would result in more than four primary partitions or the partition has one or more logical partitions to the left and one or more logical partitions to the right. PowerQuest PartitionMagic 77 C H A PT E R 6 Using Wizards This chapter includes the following information: · Overview · Running Wizards · Create New Partition Wizard · Create Backup Partition Wizard · Install Another Operating System Wizard · Resize a Partition Wizard · Redistribute Free Space Wizard · Merge Partitions Wizard · Copy Partition Wizard 79 Overview PartitionMagic includes seven wizards for common tasks. The wizards provide an alternative to performing the tasks manually using the commands on the Partition menu. You do not have access to the wizards if you run PartitionMagic from the rescue disks. Running Wizards There are two ways to run a wizard: · Click under Pick a task in the upper left pane of the main screen. [. . . ] Operating System Errors (over 10, 000) Any number over 10, 000 indicates an operating system error. To determine the number of the operating system error, subtract 10, 000. (For example, 10, 032 - 10, 000 = 32) Consult your operating system documentation for information about resolving the error. Exit Code 12 PartitionMagic needs free sectors in track 0 to install the virtual floppy file that applies operations in boot mode. If PartitionMagic cannot find free sectors in track 0, it returns this exit code. [. . . ]