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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: shrink drive c: to install a new operating system
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:00:08 -0500
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On Wed, 12/25/2024 1:26 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2024-12-25 18:08, Paul wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>> It's the same anywhere, YOU test the quality in, because
>> people you cannot see, may or may not care all that much.
>> In the previous paragraphs, are two diametrically opposed results.
>> Careful developers and... the other kind.
>>
>> If you use a third party tool, it can take part time testing
>> for months, to conclude what kind of developers they were.
> 
> The first time I shrinked a partition was in 1998. Back then, you needed a small partition before the 1024 cylinder, but could be a tiny one, used for /boot. So sometimes you needed to shrink a bit the beginning of the Windows partition, then a large portion at the end. Could be a large portion at the end, and then shift everything a cylinder or two.
> 
> The limitation came because the BIOS could not read beyond the 1024 cylinder or something like that.
> 
> I used, I think, Partition Magic in Windows. Is this tool still around?
> 
> Things are easier now.
> 

Partition Magic was acquired by someone else.

The Partition Magic developers were pretty careful. They enforced
all sorts of rules for which there was no reason to enforce them :-)
And doing that, reduced the number of test cases they would need
to run. It was a case of "you can't do this, and you can't do that".
Your operations then, had to align with whatever rules they
had cooked up.

   Paul