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Don Whiteside wrote: > Looks like a neat tool, but I'd find someone to go in with on the > purchase - WAY too expensive for a one-time use product... (~$60) I guess it's a matter of how one values that "one-time use". I've used PM once to reorganize and resize the partitions on my desktop system in order to make room for installing Win95. I was able to move freespace from HPFS partitions to FAT partitions, move space out of ext/logical partitions to increase my small DOS primary partition, etc. I moved or modified every partition on a pair of 420M disks. Basically, I was able to do in half an evening what would have otherwise taken the entire weekend and then some if I'd done the old system of backup, repartition, pray, and restore. (I *did* do a backup though) I place the value of my weekends at much more than $60, so even if I never use PartitionMagic again, I feel I got more than my money's worth. Additionally, having PM around changes how you view adjusting partition sizes. I never get it perfectly right the first time out with any new disk drive; used to be I just lived with it 'til I had time. Now it's very easy to move things around if you find one partition is getting a little full and you have another partition on that disk which has excess free space. A few minutes with PM and everything's set. I expect to use it at least once more when I get around to wiping WarpConnect from my desktop system. I will be able to easily delete those partitions and fold them into the partitions I use under Win95. (Lest this dissolve into an OS-war, which does not belong here, let me just say that despite all of Warp's good points, FOR MY SPECIFIC USES, Win95 does a better job; if someone wants me to go into the specific details, email me directly) -- Lew Jansen Systems Manager, High Energy Physics Theory lrj@hepth.cornell.edu 233 Newman Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853