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To: Gottfried who wrote (47463)	8/25/2005 10:42:17 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110626

Partition Magic is Magic ... Gottfried, << jdxx and Eric, thanks for your advice! I bit the bullet and ordered PM v 8.0 for $18.43 including shipping from one of the Amazon merchants. I can then be more pro-active in changing partitions without risking data. >> Good move. Indispenable program, IMO. When I 1st used it on an almost brand new IBM Thinkpad (450-50) - but one on which I'd installed a lot of application software, as well as having transferred a lot of nonexecutable archived files -- those many moons ago, I said "That's ~!#$%^& Magic!" -- I mean I could absolutely not believe it could be that easy to create multiple partitions and leave data intact in the process, then resize, etc. Before that I'd done it the old painful DOS reformat the drive and start from scratch way. Since then I've actually held off buying new DPE with larger drives till PM had the capability to partition the drive sizes I wanted to order -- 80MB then 160 MB in recent years -- and have ordered DPE with multiple drives rather than a single drive as they got larger up to the max, but not beyond what PM would handle. My recall is that it originally had a pack and move function. I think that may be gone (can't remember) but of late I use another "move" program (for applications with executables and registered entries) in conjunction with it. Here's the way I partition every system immediately after putting it into use and before I even install a utilities suite, AV, firewall and malware catchers: C: The OS and all updates, as well as vendor utilities -- nothing else. D: All application software (but not files they create)¹ E: Archives -- Older files (not executables), and all downloads F: Files -- All active files not archived including My Documents, it's subfolders, etc., and temp files E. VM Swap File G: Internet Cache ¹ Includes vendor installed applications moved from the original unpetitioned drive or uninstalled/reinstalled from furnished disk (or CD-ROM) Best, - Eric -