ta0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Phillip Ambrose) (07/12/90)
Is Disk Express able to defragment all Sivlerlining Partitions?? Silverlining uses soft partitions, correct??? What is the best hard partitioning software??? -tom
siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) (07/12/90)
In article <gaardnq00VpNM_s1M9@andrew.cmu.edu> ta0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Phillip Ambrose) writes: > > >Is Disk Express able to defragment all Sivlerlining Partitions?? Yes. >Silverlining uses soft partitions, correct??? No. SUM uses soft partitions - it makes a file look like a disk partition. Silverlining does its partitioning at the driver level, but you can change the partitioning without reformatting the hard disk. I like to think of this as "firm" partitioning. Hard partitioning requires that you reformat the hard disk if you want to change the partition layout of the disk after you've set it up. >What is the best hard partitioning software??? I hear GCC's software is pretty good, and so is MicroNet's, but you have to buy one of those drives to get the software. SilverLining can be bought without a hard drive, and it includes its own optimization function, so you won't even have to buy DiskExpress (and it's a couple of orders of magnitude faster, too...) R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "In this world there is nothing more thrilling than a lone man facing singlehandedly half a ton of angry pot roast." - Tom Lehrer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drew@cup.portal.com (Andrew E Wade) (07/12/90)
Jasimine disks are supplied with their DriveWare that includes partitioning that I guess you would call hard. Each partition can have it's own system folder and you can switch launch from one to the other. I find this really useful; e.g., can switch to one and run disk first aid or tune-up on the other. At format time you must specify how many partitions, and cannot change that without losing all data. But then you can recreate different partitions of different sizes within that limit. -Drew Wade drew@objy.com