Q: I am starting ME / XP, and I want the XP to make it larger, and the smaller ME. Partition Magic 6 will work? Thank you.
Best Answer: Yes, you can install 2000 on one partition and XP on another. But just as the other answerer said, there is little difference between the two. In fact 2000 runs faster since it has less junk, such as WGA and updates, and all of the eye candy. 2000 can be made pretty secure by using a virus software, something you also need with XP and ditching IE, something that helps on XP too. If u switch over to Firefox or Opera, both good modern fast browsers, youll be set with that partition. But you can experiment with XP on the other, its not much slower. If u like it better use it.
Re:Is there a downloadable trial or demo that I can get?The demo of this program is on downloads.com but they are saying the demo dosent let you partition.
Re:no im using FAT32 so Ill check out PM6 then. Thanks.
Re:I have used PM6 in XP on both FAT32 and NTFS systems and it worked in both. I did have it installed on FAT32 before I switched to NTFS though, not sure if that made a difference.
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Re:PM6 will work on XP, as long as XP is installed on a FAT or FAT32 partition (I have used it).
I already had it installed on a separate boot of Windows 98SE, and only run PM6 after
exiting to DOS mode, or coming up from a boot floppy.
If XP is installed on a NTFS partition, then you will need to get PM7.
Re:argh I guess Im getting Partition Magic 7 then …. Or is there any other program out there??
Re:I have Drive Image Pro 4 which comes with Partition Magic Pro 6 (very slightly different than PM Regular 6), and PM Pro 6 will not even install under XP. When you try it you get "This application has a known problem with this version of windows and will be disabled".
More like this version of windows has a known problem with everything 
Now you could *try* running PMPro 6 from within Windows ME or even DOS and use it to resize the partitions…I'm not sure how well that would work though…
On the one hand, I've never reformatted my second hard drive to "WinXP NTFS" I was using the drive exactly how it was formatted for Win2000 and WinXP read it just fine.
On the other hand, if PMPro6 won't run under WinXP, I would suggest that it's probably a bad idea to use it to resize XP's drive from a different OS.
While it may work, I would say you do so at your own risk.
Re:PowerQuest says it doesn't. Microsoft made some changes to NTFS with XP. You'll need to get PM7 to be fully compatible. Now have I tried it with PM6? Nope.
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