PartitionMagic by PowerQuest Version 3.0 Copyright (c) 1994-1996, PowerQuest Corporation All Rights Reserved. Patents Pending. This file explains changes made since the printing of the manual. TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- 1. License Types 2. Boot Manager vs. PQ Boot 3. Usage Notes 4. UnInstaller Mover by MicroHelp 5. Updates 1. License Types ---------------- The Personal License Version is a machine-specific license that allows modifications on one specific computer. See the *User Guide* for the license agreement. The Pack License Version is available for use on a specific number of computers; refer to the specific license for the number of active users allowed. The Professional License Version is available for modifying an unlimited number of computers, one computer at a time. The Enterprise Version is available for organizations requiring remote configuration capabilities at multiple sites. This version provides for remote execution which runs unattended through use of a script file. The Enterprise License allows simultaneous use and can upgrade hundreds of users quickly and saves time and travel expense. For information on the Pack, Professional or Enterprise Versions of PartitionMagic, contact PowerQuest Corporate Sales at (801) 226-8977. 2. Boot Manager vs. PQ Boot --------------------------- PartitionMagic 3.0 ships with both Boot Manager by IBM and PQ Boot by PowerQuest. When you install Boot Manager, PartitionMagic will create a separate primary partition and mark it active. When the computer starts, Boot Manager displays a startup menu that allows you to choose the partition to boot. PQ Boot is a command line utility to switch between bootable primary partitions. When a primary partition is selected using PQ Boot, it is set active and PQ Boot reboots the computer. Both boot utilities are useful for different situations. For example, Boot Manager requires an additional primary partition while PQ Boot does not. Boot Manager allows you to choose which operating system to boot each time you start your computer. PQ Boot, on the other hand, is ideal for users who will only occasionally change the active partition. Boot Manager allows OS/2 installation to a logical partition and can boot OS/2 and a few other operating systems from a logical partition. PQ Boot will only boot primary partitions. If both are used together, using PQ Boot to boot a partition other than Boot Manager will deactivate Boot Manager. To reactivate it, use PQ Boot, PartitionMagic or some other method to set Boot Manager as the active partition. Boot Manager will not correctly boot from a FAT32 partition if other primary FAT/FAT32 partitions are present. To boot a FAT32 partition, set it active with PartitionMagic or with PQ Boot. 3. Usage Notes -------------- - Don't forget to backup your hard drive before using PartitionMagic. While PartitionMagic has been thoroughly tested and is quite safe, power failure, operating system bugs, and hardware design bugs can put your data at risk. No software program, including PartitionMagic, is perfect. Before using any utility that makes such extensive changes to your hard drive, you should backup your data. - If you run PartitionMagic from DOS: Turn off 3rd 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. - After using PartitionMagic, it is normal to get an error message when starting Windows 3.1 stating that the swap file is corrupt. Windows 3.1 is designed knowing that disk utilities may move the clusters of the swap file. When a move is detected, the error message is given. To fix the swap file, delete the swap file and create it again. Click on the 386 Enhanced icon in Control Panel, then on the Virtual Memory button. - This release of PartitionMagic handles ASCII filenames. PartitionMagic does not yet handle double byte character sets such as Japanese, resulting in two known limitations: (1) Converting a partition from FAT to HPFS can produce incorrectly translated filenames. (2) An attempt to specify or set the Volume label may fail. - Sometimes changes made by PartitionMagic confuse Windows NT 3.5x, which then assigns drive letters incorrectly. This bug is fixed in Windows NT 4.0. NT 3.5x users should use Disk Administrator to assign the drive letters back to the values you prefer. - OS/2 does not support FAT32 partitions. Also, if you convert a partition to FAT32 and convert it back to FAT16, all OS/2 extended attributes (EAs) will be lost. - Progress bars are an estimation only and can 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. - Please note that the memory requirement (16 MB) for modifying FAT32 partitions applies to most circumstances. In some circumstances more memory may be required. 4. UnInstaller Mover by MicroHelp --------------------------------- For all UnInstaller Mover technical support questions, please contact MicroHelp between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Eastern Standard Time at (770) 591-6448 or send e-mail to tech@microhelp.com. 5. Updates ---------- Minor updates to PartitionMagic are provided periodically. They are available from our web site (www.powerquest.com), via anonymous ftp (ftp.powerquest.com), from our BBS (801-226-5608), or from CompuServe (OS2AVENDOR, Other Vendors section). Check regularly to assure you have the latest bug fixes and minor improvements.