PowerQuest(R) PartitionMagic(R)
Version 7.0


TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Back up Your System!
2. General Usage Notes 
3. Known Issues - All Systems
4. Known Issues - Windows NT/2000/XP only)
5. Known Issues - Windows 9x only
6. Known Issues - PartitionMagic Pro only
7. Uninstalling Windows Me
8. Tutorial Movies
9. PowerQuest's Storage Manager Newsletter


1. BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM!
-----------------------
Remember to back up your hard drives before using PartitionMagic.
While PartitionMagic has been thoroughly tested, power failures, 
operating system bugs, and hardware design bugs can put your data 
at risk. BEFORE USING ANY UTILITY THAT MAKES SUCH EXTENSIVE CHANGES 
TO YOUR HARD DISK, YOU SHOULD BACK UP YOUR DATA.

To back up your system, we recommend using PowerQuest Drive 
Image(R).  Drive Image is a disk imaging tool that allows you to 
create an image of your entire system that can easily be restored. 
Having a backup allows you to run PartitionMagic with the security 
of knowing that you can get your system back up and running quickly 
if you run into problems.

For further information about preparing to run PartitionMagic, see 
the PartitionMagic online help.  Click the Contents tab.  Double-click 
the "Getting Started" book, then click "Before you run PartitionMagic."


2. GENERAL USAGE NOTES
----------------------
- If you run PartitionMagic from DOS:  Turn off third-party disk 
caches.  Deactivate or unload any TSR programs that access or 
modify the partitions being changed.

- Do not run PartitionMagic from a compressed drive.

- PartitionMagic is not supported with Windows NT or Windows 2000 
servers.

- Be aware that there is no undo (after clicking Apply) if you merge 
two FAT or FAT32 partitions. You must be particularly careful not to 
merge two primary partitions that include operating systems, as your 
computer will not be bootable if you do.

- PartitionMagic is available in English, French, German, Italian,
Korean, Spanish, traditional Chinese, and Japanese.  A non-Asian 
language version of PartitionMagic should never be used on an
Asian language version of Windows NT/2000/XP, as this
may cause corruption of filenames and partition/volume set
labels.

- Progress bars are an estimation only and may pause for several 
minutes, even though PartitionMagic is still working correctly.  If 
you think your computer has locked up, please be patient and 
PartitionMagic will finish the operation.

- You should run Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) reader at least once before you
attempt to open the PartitionMagic PDF documentation in the English\
Docs folder on the PartitionMagic CD.  If you open PDF manuals on the
CD the first time you run Acrobat, Acrobat will display its splash 
screen, display a license agreement, then disappear.  If you make 
a second attempt to display the PDF documentation, you will not 
encounter any problems.  PowerQuest recommends Adobe Acrobat 
version 4.0 or later for best viewing quality.  You can download 
the Acrobat reader for free from www.adobe.com.


3. KNOWN ISSUES - ALL SYSTEMS
-----------------------------

	A. Running other applications with PartitionMagic
	-------------------------------------------------
	You should not run PartitionMagic while any other applications 
	are running.  Close any running applications before starting 
	PartitionMagic.

	B. Bad Sector Checking is ON by default
	---------------------------------------
	Be aware that PartitionMagic ships with bad sector checking 
	turned ON by default.  This ensures that data is not moved or 
	copied to bad disk sectors.  However, this causes the Create, 
	Move, and Resize operations to slow down considerably.  Modern
	hard disks are designed to avoid bad sectors automatically.  
	If you feel confident that bad sectors are not a problem on 
	your system and you want to improve the performance of 
	PartitionMagic, turn off Bad Sector Checking (by checking the 
	appropriate boxes in the "Skip bad sector checks" list box 
	in Preferences).  Another way to verify that there are no bad 
	sectors on your disk is to run the Windows 95/98/Me ScanDisk 
	utility and do a surface scan before launching PartitionMagic.

	C. UNC Paths Do Not Work for Installation
	-----------------------------------------
	If you install PartitionMagic from a network directory, you must
	have a drive letter mapped to the directory.  UNC (Universal
	Naming Convention) paths will not work for installation. If you
	do not have a drive letter mapped to the directory, you will
	receive error #0 or error #1 and installation will fail.

	D. Error 2009 Encountered When Merging FAT Partitions
	-----------------------------------------------------
	On some merge operations, you may encounter error #2009. To
	resolve the problem, create a temporary file (such as junk.txt)
	in the root directory of the target partition.  Then restart the
	merge operation.

	E.  Mount Points
	----------------
	Under Windows 2000, if you perform operations on partitions that
	include mount points, you must restore the mount points after
	the operations are complete.

	F. USB Drives
	-------------
	USB drives are not accessible for boot-mode operations.  If 
	you perform operations on a USB drive, there cannot be any 
	open files on the drive before you apply the changes.


4. KNOWN ISSUES - WINDOWS NT/2000/XP ONLY
-----------------------------------------

	A. Backing up your BOOT.INI file in Windows NT
	----------------------------------------------
	PartitionMagic for Windows NT needs to temporarily replace your
	BOOT.INI file after performing the disk manipulation operations.
	It restores the file once it has finished performing the 
	operations and rebooting.  If a failure occurs during the NT 
	reboot phase, your BOOT.INI file may not be restored properly.
	It is a good idea to back up your BOOT.INI file before running 
	PartitionMagic for Windows NT.

	B. Volume sets and stripe sets on Windows NT
	--------------------------------------------
	PartitionMagic does not support volume sets, stripe sets, stripe 
	sets with parity, or partitions located on disk mirror/duplex 
	sets configured using Windows NT Disk Administrator.  Under 
	Windows 2000/XP, PartitionMagic supports standard partitions 
	located on basic disk sets only.

	C. Mixed IDE/SCSI drive configurations under Windows NT
	-------------------------------------------------------
	In a configuration with mixed IDE and SCSI hard drives, Windows NT
	does not always see the boot drive as the first physical hard 
	drive. PartitionMagic displays drives in the order Windows NT 
	reports them.  As a result, you may see your boot device as 
	Drive 1, 2, and so forth.  This does not cause problems for 
	PartitionMagic except when setting a new active partition.  
	Also, PartitionMagic may incorrectly report that there is no 
	active partition on your system.  To change your active 
	partition, be sure that you identify which drive is the boot 
	drive. 

	D. Color palette issues installing Windows NT version
	-----------------------------------------------------
	If you run the Windows NT version of PartitionMagic immediately
	after installation, occasionally you may see color palette 
	problems.  We recommend rebooting Windows NT before running 
	PartitionMagic for the first time.

	E. PartitionMagic produces new-style uppercase table
	----------------------------------------------------
	The Windows 95/98/Me and MS-DOS versions of PartitionMagic 
	format NTFS file systems with the uppercase table used by NT 4.0 
	after Service Pack 4.  When Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 
	4 is started after an NTFS file system is created by 
	PartitionMagic, it detects the new-style uppercase table and 
	changes it to the old version.  You may see a message dialog
	telling you that the conversion is occurring, but you do not
	need to take any action.

	F. Windows NT/2000/XP Boot Partition Drive Letter
	-------------------------------------------------
	You should not change the drive letter originally assigned to 
	the Windows NT/2000/XP boot partition (the partition where
	Windows is installed).  Changing the drive letter to anything
	but its original designation will cause severe boot problems 
	and may cause your computer to be unbootable.

	G. Error 183: Init Failed
	-------------------------
	If you attempt to run PartitionMagic on a Windows 2000/XP
	Professional machine where the boot partition (the partition
	where Windows 2000/XP Professional is installed) is on a 
	dynamic disk, you will receive the following error message: 
	"Init failed: Error 183.  Unable to identify the Windows
	partition."  To solve this problem, Windows 2000/XP must be
	installed on a basic disk.

	H. Error 184
	------------
	If you encounter error 184 when initializing PartitionMagic,
	run Disk Administrator (Windows NT) or Disk Management 
	(Windows 2000/XP), then start PartitionMagic again.


5. KNOWN ISSUES - WINDOWS 9x ONLY
---------------------------------

	A. Upgrading from Windows 9x
	----------------------------
	If you install PartitionMagic under Windows 9x, then you upgrade 
	your operating system to Windows Me or Windows XP and run 
	PartitionMagic, you may see an error.  The error occurs when you 
	perform any operation that requires PartitionMagic to go into 
	boot mode.  To correct the problem, reinstall PartitionMagic from 
	the CD.  After you have reinstalled PartitionMagic, you will not 
	encounter the error again.

	B. Dual Boot
	------------
	On a computer with a dual boot, if you have more than 20 
	partitions,	you may not be able to launch PartitionMagic under 
	a Windows 9x boot.


6. KNOWN ISSUES - PARTITIONMAGIC PRO ONLY
-----------------------------------------

	A. Across the Wire
	------------------
	If you disconnect from the network or lose power while you
 	are performing operations across the wire to a remote 
	machine, PartitionMagic will not recover gracefully. The 
	affected hard disk on the remote machine will be marked as 
	bad.  To correct the error: 1) Run PartitionMagic with the
	/IPE switch. Change to the %systemdrive%\Program Files\
	PowerQuest\PartitionMagic 7.0 folder, and start PartitionMagic 
	by typing PMAGIC9X /IPE or PMAGICNT /IPE.  2) Connect to the 
	remote machine using Remote Agent.  3) Delete the partition 
	that was only partially copied. 4) Close PartitionMagic.

	You should NOT run PartitionMagic with the /IPE switch on a
  	regular basis, since it causes PartitionMagic to ignore 
	partition errors on all drives.  If you manipulate drives 
	with errors, you could lose data.  However, if you use the 
	/IPE switch to resolve the problem noted above, it will not 
	cause data loss.

	B. Using Remote Agent with in-use partitions
	--------------------------------------------
	If you attempt to move or copy an in-use partition from the 
	local machine to a remote machine, you will receive the 
	following error message: "Operations on remote partitions 
	cannot be applied in conjunction with operations that require 
	the machine to reboot."  Typically, this error occurs if the 
	source partition is that where your operating system is 
	installed or if the partition has open data files.

	If the source partition is the operating system partition, you 
	can work around this problem by first copying this partition to 
	unallocated space on a drive attached to the local machine, 
	rebooting the machine, then using the copied partition as the 
	source partition for Remote Agent operations.

	If the source partition has open data files, you can work around 
	the problem by ensuring that any programs and services that 
	require use of the source partition are closed and stopped.

	Remember that Remote Agent was not designed to be a deployment
	tool, but rather a way to copy partitions between machines.

	C. Error Creating Remote Agent Boot Disks
	-----------------------------------------
	On a Windows 98 or Windows Me system, you may encounter the 
	following error when creating Remote Agent boot disk:

	The file below is required but was not found in the indicated 
	directory.

	C:\Windows\command\ebd\command.com

	To resolve the problem, create the directory 
	C:\Windows\command\ebd. Then copy IO.SYS from C:\ and COMMAND.COM 
	and HIMEM.SYS from C:\Windows into C:\Windows\command\ebd. Then 
	create the Remote Agent boot disk.

	D. Remote Agent and Multiple NICs
	---------------------------------
	Remote Agent does not run on machines with more than one
	network adapter.

	E. Set as Read-Only for PartitionMagic
	--------------------------------------
	If you set a partition as read-only for PartitionMagic, that
	partition is still modifiable from a script. The read-only
	status only applies to the GUI version of PartitionMagic.

	F. WinSock2 (Windows 95 only)
	-----------------------------
	If your computer does not include Winsock2, the Connect Remote 
	Agent feature in PartitionMagic Pro will not run.  You may 
	see an error message that says a required DLL file, WS2_32.DLL, 
	was not found, or you may see a more general error message 
	stating that the feature cannot launch.

	Go to the following URL to automatically install and configure 
	Winsock2 on your machine:

	http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/
	wuadmintools/s_wunetworkingtools/w95sockets2/default.asp

	The following URL describes how to identify whether Winsock2 is 
	installed on your machine:

	http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q177/7/19.asp


7. UNINSTALLING WINDOWS ME
--------------------------
If you use PartitionMagic (or FDISK or any other partitioning
software), you should be aware of the following Microsoft warning.

IMPORTANT: You should not attempt to uninstall Windows Me if the 
partition information for your hard disk or disks has changed since 
you last installed Windows Me successfully.  Windows Me creates a 
backup copy of your partition information in the Suhdlog.dat file 
at the end of a successful installation, and Uninstal.exe restores 
the partition information listed in the Suhdlog.dat file to your 
hard disk during the uninstall.  If the partition information on 
your hard disk or disks has changed since you last installed 
successfully (specifically, since the Suhdlog.dat file was created), 
then you might experience partial or complete data loss as a result 
of attempting to uninstall Windows Me.


8. TUTORIAL MOVIES
------------------
The PartitionMagic CD contains multimedia tutorials that visually step
you through the most commonly performed tasks in PartitionMagic.  Any
Java-enabled web browser is capable of playing the tutorial movies. 
However, for best results, the following web browsers are recommended.

   Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
   ------------------------
   Netscape 4.06 or better, 32 MB RAM, Pentium
   Internet Explorer 4.0 or better, 32 MB RAM, Pentium
   AOL 4.0 or better

   Linux
   -----
   Netscape 4.x or better, 32 MB RAM

   Solaris
   -------
   Netscape 4.x or better, 64 MB RAM

To play a movie, 

   1. Insert the PowerQuest PartitionMagic CD into your CD-ROM drive.
   2. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the DemoClip folder on the
	PartitionMagic CD.
   3. Double-click TRAINING.HTML to view the page in your default 
	web browser.
   4. Double-click a movie title to play.

The tutorials are also available for viewing on the PowerQuest web site. 
Go to http://www.powerquest.com/support.  Select "PartitionMagic" 
from the Demonstration Videos drop-down list, then click a movie 
title to play.


9. POWERQUEST'S STORAGE MANAGER NEWSLETTER
------------------------------------------
PowerQuest has a free monthly electronic newsletter that is dedicated
to official announcements, tips, and techniques for PowerQuest 
products. You can view the newsletter online at 
www.powerquest.com/newsletter.

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PowerQuest can be reached at:

   Voice: 801-437-8900
   Fax: 801-226-8941
   Web site: www.powerquest.com
   E-mail: magic@powerquest.com

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PartitionMagic and its use are subject to a license agreement and are 
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PowerQuest, PartitionMagic, BootMagic and Drive Image are registered 
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