Hard Disk Backup
Copying Partitions With PartitionMagic (so as to make an easily restorable system backup)
create a PartitionMagic floppy disk set by running
'\english\dos-os2\makedisk a:' on the original CD
(there will also be a way to do this from a version thats already installed)
boot with disk 1 and swap to disk 2 when prompted
you need some free/unallocated space to copy to (space not defined as a
partition, not formatted, not anything), so you may have to reduce the size of
an existing partition (with the re-size option) to create this space.
PartitionMagic will make a bit-for-bit copy of the partition, so the backup will
use the same amount of space as the original. if you have your Windows system
(Windows, Program Files, virtual memory, tem space, data, etc) installed using
small dedicated partitions this shouldn't be a problem. if your Windows system
uses have one large partition you will have to reduce the size of that partition
to just above the amount of space the data in the used partition takes up (this
is easy to see with PartitionMagic) (defragment before doing this so as to
squash the data up to the beginning of the partition), make the copy, then re-
size it back to what it was
you may want to delete existing backups before you make another
select the partition to copy
select ? [what is this menu option called? Action?] -> copy
PartitionMagic will use unallocated space to create the copy on (automatically
choosing the unallocated space if there's only one of sufficient size, asking
you to choose if there's more than one) then make the copy, probably giving it a
'hidden FAT' designation (if the partition is of type FAT) (I dont think it has
consistently chosen this for me). 'hidden FAT' will not be given a drive letter
and will not show up in your operating system as a drive (so saves from
confusing the user interface), but if you do want to see the partition and its
contents (perhaps to be able to restore the partition from within the operating
system rather than via PartitionMagic) then make sure the partition is
designated 'fat' or a match of whatever type the original partition is)