partition magic

[Igor Gueths]

Hi all. Thomas brought up a good point here. Is there a debug-like uility that runs under Linux? Because I would just love to take a look at those disk sectors! 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Thomas D. Ward <tward at bright.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:20 PM
Subject: RE: partition magic


> 
> They are hidden on the floppy, in a secretly formatited place. The disks 
> are good, but to windows they look like bad sectors.
> copying Jaws auth disks are a  real pain, but it is do able with he 
> right tools.
>  fOR MANY REASONS i AM NOT GOING TO DISCLOSE TO ANYONE HOW IT IS DONE.
> 
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jared wrote:
> 
> > Its a hidden system file that resides in the boot record I think. You have
> > to use a special program to copy the hjauth disks ad well something about
> > spicific corrupted sectors.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Alex Snow
> > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 12:37 PM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: partition magic
> > 
> > 
> > Do you know ware the tokins are lockated (folder)?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena at gena-j.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 3:31 PM
> > Subject: RE: partition magic
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Just a thought, if your using JFW, uninstall it before resizing partitions
> > > because JFW tokens don't like being moved so they remove themselves.
> > >
> > > As a start, I'd just put GNU / Linux on the second hard disk leaving
> > > Windblows to blow its hot air.
> > >
> > > If it was me I'd partition the bigger drive and put GNU / Linux on that
> > and
> > > use the second disk (d:) as a backup drive for both Windblows files and
> > > Linux.
> > >
> > > Gena
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Alex Snow
> > > Sent: 31 March 2002 20:09
> > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > Subject: Re: partition magic
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, let's get one thing straight: There's no such thing as a "fat32
> > > drive".  There is a fat32 partition though.  What you want is to make a
> > new
> > > partition, and when asked, use exf2 as the filesystem.
> > > Alex Snow
> > > email: alex8887 at hotmail.com
> > > BBS: Telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jared" <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com>
> > > To: "Speakup Mailing List (E-mail)" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 2:22 AM
> > > Subject: partition magic
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello I have a copy of partition magic 7.0 When I go into a wiserd and
> > > slect
> > > > install linux as an option it gives me an x2 or some type of file system
> > > > like that. Do I want this as a seporate partition on the same fat32
> > drive
> > > > with windows 98 or should I just partition another drive chunk off tell
> > it
> > > > it is going to boot win mellenium, then install linux since I've heard
> > it
> > > > can use fat32? Also if I use what partition magic gives me how will the
> > > > partitioning part of installation go? How can I tell if I will be on the
> > > > write number of silinders? Thanks for any help with this.
> > > >
> > > >
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