Partition Magic Question

[RayH]

I have XP running on an 8.4 GB hard drive right now. In about 10 days or so, I should be receiving my replacement WDJB, 80 GB.

Can I use Partition Magic as a slave to first partition the new drive (without any preparation)? I want to create a 15 GB C (NTFS) and 65 GB FAT 32 D.

[reboot]

If you have the PM bootdiskette already made, install the new drive, boot to the diskette, partition, and copy the drive.

[Panama Red]

Not sure I'm following you, Ray, but here's what I did recently. Had an 80Gb WD and added a second. I installed Partition Magic after the new drive was installed and just set up all the partitions the way I wanted, selecting Fat32 for one partition where I plan to install 98se later. I did it all on the fly with existing software and files undisturbed. XP Home was/is on the system. HTH

[RayH]

I asked the question because I never used Partition Magic in conjnction with two hard drives. I was running Windows XP in a full setup on a temporary 8 GB hard drive.

I just got my new 80 GB hard drive and set it up as a slave. I used Partition Magic to partition it to 12 GB and 65 GB+ (FAT 32). I made a Drive Image file of the 8 GB to the FAT 32.

I used that file on the FAT 32 to install the OS to the 12 GB. After I did that, because the partition was unallocated, I had to use PM to move it up from 8GB to the rest of the unallocated.

All in all, it was pretty quick. Something like about 20 minutes.