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I have a question about after market partition software.
Mainly,PowerQuests Partition Magic 8.0.
My question is:
After installing the software and creating a partition on a hard drive I have ended up with C:/ and D:/ partitions as I intended to.
I would like to know can I can uninstall the partition software leaving the newly created partition intact?
I could not find an answer on the web and have turned to Computing.Net for an answer.
Any input would be appreciated.TIA
DJMike
It;s not advisable to remove PM8 after you used to create the new partition for two primary reasons:
1) You need to have PM8 program left intact to maintain the volume(s)
2) You never know when you may run into problems.
i_XpUser
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Just un-install the software as you would any other software. There's nothing special about it. Once the partitions are created is doesn't need any software to maintain them till you delete them.
Stuart
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Thanks StuartS and XPUser but the reason I ask about removing it is because I typically end up fixing PC's for friends and family. My friends and family are not PC savy. Usually once or twice a year I spend hours at a house hold trying to undo the mess that either the adult or children have screwed up by never ever reading the EULA. I know you guys know what I mean. Anyway, I have been partitioning a segment of their hard drives and ghosting an image of their system so I can be in and out quickly with a simple restore of their image.
I do not want to install my software and leave it on their machine. At this point I believe I cannot partition a hard drive with no unallocated space that houses an operating system using the Windows Management Console. Unless it is possible to create a partition I'd like to know if there are reprecussions to removing Partition magic after partition creation.
Sorry I wasn't more clear on my first post.TIA
DJMike
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It makes no difference if you keep it or not. It is not like the old hack that the early PM did. It is a true correct partition(s).
There is no need to keep PM8 but there is no need to remove it either. In most XP installs' the damage is done on install. I find very few uninstall apps really do a clean removal of the software. While you may think you are removing the app, you system still has leftovers.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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why don't you switch to using a free distro of linux for the partion management.... they all come with partioning tools.
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"1) You need to have PM8 program left intact to maintain the volume(s)". I must disagree. It's not necessary to leave the PM software installed.
I always uninstall it after I use it to successfully repartition a drive.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.
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>> why don't you switch to using a free distro of linux for the partion management.... they all come with partioning tools. <<
Why bother. Partitioning is not something you do on a regular basis, or at least it shouldn't be. If you find it necessary to use a partition manager more than once a year then there is something wrong.
All the partition manager, any partition manager, does is read an write numbers to the Master Boot Record where volume information is stored. The difficult part is calculating which numbers to write. It get really difficult when you start moving and resizing partitions as that means moving data about to correspond to the numbers in the Master Boot Record. Once it's done, the partition manager plays no further part in the proceedings.
Stuart
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