Symantec PartitionMagic - 8.0 Quick Start Guide

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Norton™ PartitionMagic® 8.0

Quick Start Guide

Published May 2004

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started

What is PartitionMagic? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

PartitionMagic System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Installing PartitionMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Creating Rescue Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Before Running PartitionMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Running PartitionMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2: PartitionMagic Basics

PartitionMagic Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Disk Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Partition List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Rescue Disk Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Process Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Selecting a Hard Disk and Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

USB, USB2, and FireWire Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Removable Media and Dynamic Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Selecting an Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Undoing an Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Viewing Pending Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Applying Changes to Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Applying Changes in Windows vs. Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 3: Using BootMagic

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

BootMagic System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installing BootMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Configuring BootMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Disabling BootMagic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 4: Service and Support Solutions

Customer service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Support for old and discontinued versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Subscription policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Worldwide service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Service and support offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Index

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CHAPTER

1

Getting Started

This chapter includes the following information:

• What is PartitionMagic?

• PartitionMagic System Requirements

• Installing PartitionMagic

• Before Running PartitionMagic

• Running PartitionMagic

What is PartitionMagic?

With Norton™ PartitionMagic®, you can quickly and easily create
partitions on your hard disks for storing valuable information such
as data files, applications, and operating systems. Storing
information in separate partitions helps you organize and protect
your data and reclaim wasted disk space.

In addition to creating new partitions with PartitionMagic, you can
resize, move, copy, label, or convert existing partitions from one file
system to another—all without destroying your data. You can also
use PartitionMagic to view comprehensive information about your
hard disk.

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