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Resizing Partitions on USB Drives
Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:04am
 
I have a new 320GB USB drive all formatted in FAT32.  I want to break it down to two partitions, one FAT32, one NTFS.  I have Partition Magic v7 that won't do USB drives.  Do higher versions of PM accomplish this before I spend $$$ to find out that they don't?
 
 
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Re: Resizing Partitions on USB Drives
Reply #1 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:23am
 
clevelandtxus,

I have PM 8 and I partitioned my USB external HD into two NTFS partitions. Later I changed it to a single partition.

If that's all you want to do then why don't you use the trial version of BING?
 
 
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Reply #2 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 8:17am
 
Brian wrote on Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:23am:
clevelandtxus,

I have PM 8 and I partitioned my USB external HD into two NTFS partitions. Later I changed it to a single partition.

If that's all you want to do then why don't you use the trial version of BING?


Thanks, I'll check BING out.
 
 
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Re: Resizing Partitions on USB Drives
Reply #3 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 8:44am
 
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I have Partition Magic v7 that won't do USB drives.

Are you referring to the Windows interface or DOS interface of PartitionMagic (PM)?

I have PM v8.x, and in Windows if I work with USB HDD's, sometimes PM places a '*' next to the procedure meaning in order to make the partition changes, it has to boot to DOS, and then re-boot back to Windows to complete the task.  I let PM do its thing, it closed down Windows, booted to DOS, I saw an error message to the effect that the target HDD was not found (I was curious to see if PM had built-in support for USB--my version does not).  Interestingly, PM still had made the changes successfully even though the HDD was not found in DOS!

I have used the DOS Panasonic USB drivers (
A Better USB 2.0 DOS Driver for Ghost + More!
) and have successfully accessed my two USB HDD's in DOS and I am able to perform all PM functions using PM's DOS interface--no problems.

But, my largest USB HDD is 120 GB--I have not worked with larger--so I don't know if that may create an issue--probably not as long as the BIOS handles the large size capacity correctly.

Hope you post back with the results of your efforts!
 

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Re: Resizing Partitions on USB Drives
Reply #4 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 10:33am
 
texdawg wrote on Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:04am:
"... I have a new 320GB USB drive all formatted in FAT32.  I want to break it down to two partitions, one FAT32, one NTFS..."

Theoretically, Windows XP FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB have to emanate from other operating systems, so be wary of reconfiguring your new 320GB external HDD in such a manner that it becomes less "Ghost 2003-friendly".

Seagate DiscWizard is a "loophole" utility running inside XP that can do the "over-32GB" trick with some -but not all - HDDs larger than the
illusory 137GB threshold
.  My current issue of Seagate DiscWizard is copyrighted 2005, and it automatically sets compliant HDDs to the maximum data transfer rate.

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Re: Resizing Partitions on USB Drives
Reply #5 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 6:11pm
 
NightOwl wrote on Oct 18th, 2006 at 8:44am:
(I was curious to see if PM had built-in support for USB--my version does not)


I didn't consider 8.* versions. My PM is ver 8.05 and it sees my USB HD from DOS.

BING can do everthing except for pouring you a beer and NTFS formatting. It can create a "NTFS partition" but you have to actually do the formatting from Windows or another app. Does that make sense? Not to me.
 
 
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Re: Resizing Partitions on USB Drives
Reply #6 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:38pm
 
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My PM is ver 8.05 and it sees my USB HD from DOS.

Your BIOS must have built-in native support for USB HDD's--didn't you say in the other thread on *flash drives* that your system will support booting from USB devices?--that sounds like native USB support to me!

My system is before USB support for boot devices can out--so unless I load DOS USB drivers during boot--no USB devices are seem in DOS!

The BIOS does say it offers *legacy USB support*, but as I understand it--that's for USB keyboard and mice--no USB support for *mass storage devices*--i.e. HDD's, flash drives, or memory cards in card readers.
 

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Reply #7 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:39pm
 
I have Partition Magic v7 that won't do USB drives.


I have PM7 also and my USB drives show from Windows as well as DOS. My system allows booting USB devices so therefore has built in DOS USB support. What version of Windows are you running?
 

If anything can go wrong, it already did, and you just now noticed it.
 
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Reply #8 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:56pm
 
ckcc wrote on Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:39pm:
I have Partition Magic v7 that won't do USB drives.


I have PM7 also and my USB drives show from Windows as well as DOS. My system allows booting USB devices so therefore has built in DOS USB support. What version of Windows are you running?


I'm Windows XP SR2.  My computer reboots to apply the changes to my USB drive but then PM7 says it can't find the drive on the reboot to apply the changes.
 
 
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Reply #9 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:59pm
 
So it's the BIOS rather than the version of PM that allows USB HDs to be seen from DOS?
 
 
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Reply #10 - Oct 18th, 2006 at 8:07pm
 
Brian wrote on Oct 18th, 2006 at 7:59pm:
So it's the BIOS rather than the version of PM that allows USB HDs to be seen from DOS?


well, not really sure. But it seems so. Unless you provide a USB driver when booting.
 

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Re: Resizing Partitions on USB Drives
Reply #11 - Oct 20th, 2006 at 3:11pm
 
try this see if it sees your USB drive:
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To change the size of an existing partition on hard disk,to put the Ghostimage on
here is a free software called QtPartED.
available free as a bootable CD from:

http://www.sysresccd.org

to use it down load the CD ISO image, burn it to a CD-R
boot from the cd at the prompt just type:

run_qtparted

and press enter on the keyboard.
enter mouse number (PS/2 is 3)
and you get a partition Magic in GUI (graphical user interface) in linux.
it is exactley like partition magic in DOS;and supports all file systems
including NTFS,FAT,FAT32,EXT3.
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my USB hard disk is an ordinary IDE HDD put inside a USB case.
so I took the HDD out and connected it to IDE channel II on the mother board booted with
partition magic to dos or Maxblast2 to dos
http://www.postbox.wanadoo.co.uk/mb2.exe
(which is generic) and prepared and partioned the drive then inserted it back into the case.
same goes with any other USB Hard disk no mater how expensive they are the are just an ordinary IDE HDD connected to a integated chip inside a case.
same is true for extenal CD rewriters if the device breaks down onen it up and connect an internal CDrewriter which is half the price .

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and if it does report back Please  so we will all know wether it woks or not
Regards Ben

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