Partition Magic 5 Update?
I received a reply from Powerquest a couple of weeks ago saying that an update for Partition Magic 5 and Windows 2000 would be available on April 10, 2000. I checked their website and haven't seen it so far.
I received a reply from Powerquest a couple of weeks ago saying that an update for Partition Magic 5 and Windows 2000 would be available on April 10, 2000. I checked their website and haven't seen it so far.
Does anyone know when it will actually be released?
Does anyone know when it will actually be released?
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Hmmm I bet the release has been pushed back. It's almost April 11, still nothing on the site. Checking their ftp site also, there's nothing there.
I had this event on my calendar that's how I remembered Can't trust those vendors really, I mean what's up with these vendors, they knew Win2k was coming didn't they?
I had this event on my calendar that's how I remembered Can't trust those vendors really, I mean what's up with these vendors, they knew Win2k was coming didn't they?
Sounds like bollocks to me...the SDKs for W2K have been available for each milestone release on the same day...
Here is a reply I got from Powerquest today:
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Evan,
Thank you for contacting us. There was a delay in release of the PartitionMagic 5.01 patch. The patch will be available by April 19th.
Thank you,
Karen
PowerQuest Customer Service
PO Box 1911
Orem UT 84059-1911
Phone: (800)379-2566
Fax: (801)226-3005
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Evan,
Thank you for contacting us. There was a delay in release of the PartitionMagic 5.01 patch. The patch will be available by April 19th.
Thank you,
Karen
PowerQuest Customer Service
PO Box 1911
Orem UT 84059-1911
Phone: (800)379-2566
Fax: (801)226-3005
_______________________________________________________________
BOGUS
http://www.powerquest.com/press/release00/PM/Mar21_2000.html
It looks to me like the only thing this update will allow you to do is create the boot floppies. The boot floppy creation is the last step of installation, which occurs after the windows install. 5.0 won't install on 2000. They created this to bypass the windows install and take you directly to the floppy creation which you never got to before unless you used 9x/NT. If you already created the floppies on another OS, this will do nothing for you. Can anybody please tell me I got this wrong.
http://www.powerquest.com/press/release00/PM/Mar21_2000.html
It looks to me like the only thing this update will allow you to do is create the boot floppies. The boot floppy creation is the last step of installation, which occurs after the windows install. 5.0 won't install on 2000. They created this to bypass the windows install and take you directly to the floppy creation which you never got to before unless you used 9x/NT. If you already created the floppies on another OS, this will do nothing for you. Can anybody please tell me I got this wrong.
You can create the floppies under W2K. Run the Autorun.exe, choose Technical Support or something similar and then there's an option to make the floppies. Unfortunately they won't boot, so you need a DOS/Win98 boot disk to boot to the command prompt, and THEN run autoexec.bat on the PM floppy #1, or I guess just running whatever program you need on the floppy should work, since autoexec.bat didn't load much of anything that I could see.
