PartitionMagic size limit?

[Venture]

I just ordered and received PartitionMagic 7.0, which claims "Partition hard drives as large as 80 GB." Before I screw up my system when I get home, does anyone know if this 80 GB limit refers to the size of the partition, or the hard drive size prior to partitioning? In other words, can I use this program on my 120 GB hard drive, so long as the partitions I make don't exceed 80 GB? Or do I need to order the upgrade (which supports 160 GB) since my drive exceeds 80 GB.
Thanks in advance for any input.

 

[JohnWill]

I used PM 7 on my 120gig drives without issue, but now I have PM 8, and it worked on a 200gig WD drive recently. I'd STRONGLY recommend you have a backup when resizing partitions, I once had PM lose a bunch of files (though not everything) during a resize.

 

[Venture]

Thanks very much for the quick reply, the info, and the tip. My system is new and I have the restore disk, so I think that will serve OK as my backup.

 

[Venture]

I went ahead and did the partition, and all appears to be working OK. I did get an error that aborted the partitioning part way through, but I think (I'm not sure) that it was unrelated to drive size. When I restarted PartitionMagic7 and checked the drive, I saw that my first partition had been resized correctly, but my second partition had not been created and that portion of the drive was listed as "unallocated." I then used the program to allocate the unallocated part of the drive to a new partition, and everything seems to be working OK.

 

[JohnWill]

You must live under a lucky star. It's usually a bad sign when PM bombs in the middle of a run.