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Restoring MBR - Solved



Jerry Feldman wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:16:16 -0500
>Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:
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>>[snip]
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>>Lessons Learned:
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>>1. If you download the online version of Partition Magic and don't pay
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>>for the CD, you should write the install key on the CD-R you use to
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>back 
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>>up the online version. ;-J
>>[snip]
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>I suggest you get Partition Magic 7 or 8. PQ 5 does not support Windows
>XP NTFS.
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Refer to "Lessons Learned", Point #1 ;-). I _HAVE_ PM 8! I also have the 
installation key, _somewhere_.

>Better still, download the Knoppix ISO and make a bootable CD. Knoppix
>3.3 and 3.4 contain QTParted. For the most part, QTParted will give you
>nearly the same services that Partition Magic does. On the plus side, it
>supports all Linux file systems. On the minus side, some resizing
>operations cannot be performed if they involve overlapping a partition
>during copy. 
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>

Nice to know, thanks.

Bill





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