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- Known incompatibilities of Partition Resizer with other software
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- Partition Resizer will behave unpredictably or undesirably in the following
- cases:
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- OS/2 & FAT Partitions:
- Partition Resizer changes the boot sector of the FAT partition it
- resizes. OS/2 (if installed on a DOS partition) keeps a copy of the
- boot sector in a file, in order to use it as an alternative boot
- sector for the dual boot utility. I haven't tested this myself, but
- I've got this report from other users. DO NOT resize your bootable
- FAT partition (drive C:) if you have OS/2 installed in a FAT partition
- of your system and you don't completely understand this situation, or
- don't know how to correct this afterwards.
- Multitasking Environments:
- It's *really* dangerous to run Partition Resizer from any operating
- system other than DOS. This means you should never run Partition
- Resizer under Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, Linux (or Linux's DosEmu).
- Secure File System (v.1.0):
- This program behaves strangely after a resizing. Either don't resize
- your partitions or remove it.
- Windows NT partitions:
- If moved, Windows NT partitions will not boot. I don't know if
- anything worse can happen to your data, so don't move them...
- Windows 3.1x Swapfile:
- If a partition containing a Windows 3.xx swapfile is moved or resized,
- the swapfile will corrupt. Remove swapfile before (to make more space
- available, therefore make resizing faster) and make a new one after
- resizing the partition.
- Programs using BIOS alarm:
- Disable ANY program using BIOS alarm (could be any scheduling or alarm
- resident program or driver) before running Partition Resizer,
- otherwise reset protection mechanism will not work.
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- As you understand, it's impossible to test Partition Resizer with every
- existing program or device driver, therefore you should be carefull not to
- use Partition Resizer while running device drivers or programs that are not
- absolutely required for your system to work. If you find any software problem
- or conflict that is caused by Partition Resizer, please inform me ASAP (you
- will find my address at the end of PRESIZER.DOC file).
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- Known and tested compatibility of Partition Resizer with other software
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- Compression Drivers (Stacker, DoubleSpace, DriveSpace):
- The above listed drivers are compatible with Partition Resizer, since
- Partition Resizer ignores compressed drives.
- OnTrack Disk Manager:
- Partition Resizer is fully compatible with OnTrack Disk Manager, but
- the driver must be loaded, otherwise Partition Resizer will report
- an error (the best thing you can do though, is to get rid of this
- driver ASAP; buy a new BIOS for god's shake!).
- Windows 95, 95 OSR2, 98, 98 SR2:
- Partition Resizer is fully compatible with Windows 95 (this doesn't
- mean you can run Partition Resizer UNDER Windows 95; you must exit
- to DOS or Windows 95 real mode first).
- Windows NT Boot Manager, LILO:
- You will not face any problems with these boot managers, but you
- have to reinstall them after you run Partition Resizer, in order
- to import the changes.
- OS/2 Boot Manager:
- You will have to reinstall the boot manager (using the setup disks
- and OS/2's FDISK program) right after running Partition Resizer.
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