Will Partition Magic work with SP2

If you're planning to do a clean install of the OS after you receive the machine then during the formatting process you can delete the existing partions and create new the partitions, in the sizes that you want.

The primary use for Partition Magic is to resize existing partitions without reloading the OS.

Message Edited by VBdotNet on 11-14-2004 08:45 AM

Do don't know the answer now, but I have been planing to try Partition Magic 8.0 on my Laptop (Windows XP Pro/SP2.  I will post my results when I do - Soon.  P.S I have never been a member of the school that advocates reinstalling the O/S immediately on a new computer, in fact I have never had the nedd to reinstalled an O/S since 1998  (damaged the registry on a Windows NT 4.0 PC).  Its not that I don't know how, its just I see no point in doing it.

Thanks for the quick response. I probably didn't give enough info in my post. What I want to do is keep the factory installed Xp as my primary OS, install a bootable version of ME (because I need it to run a year old Epson scanner that Epson refuses to update to XP),and finally, create another partition for data. Since I'm ordering an 80 gb HD I'll have the capacityto do this. I've used Partition Magic for several yrs. on three computers and like the program. It will allow all of this to be done and I definitely do NOT want to re-format & reinstall XP.
My question is: will SP2 interfere with Partition Magic 8.0
Walt

The ONLY way to absolutely get rid of spyware/viruses is to re-partition the hard drive. From scratch, not just re-partition free space with partition magic, etc..

 

Regards,

Charles.

I like to restore upon receiving the machines, since they seem to come with more and more addons that I don't want. jukebox, cd creator, this player, links here, links there.

As a side note, my xp pro sp2 machine came with a restore cd labeled Win XP PRO SP2...and it's actually HOME! The volume label is home, and sure enough, when I restore, it's XP Home. They must have had a mistake at the cd factory. So before you restore, make sure it has what you want...and call them now if you're volume doesn't seem to match the cd label.



Sean