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Well, it seems that I might have a valid copy of PartitionMagic 8, due to my dad having version 6, thusly having the serial key. But I'm not sure whether or not it will work (Nothing's come up yet, but I haven't made any changes either, so...)

It says as a side note when I'm resizing my C:\ drive:

"This partition crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary and may not be bootable."

Is this something I should watch out for? I'm not really that good with this sort of stuff (partitions etc.)

You shouldn't worry about that message -- it mainly applies to old versions of Windows. 

The BIOS disk I/O functions used by bootloaders are unable to read past cylinder 1024 due to historical limitations.  Current Windows versions solve this problem by placing the essential files this applies to at the beginning of the partition, and they are not likely to be moved by PartitionMagic.

That said, partition resizing is a "hack" and not something intended by design, which is why Microsoft doesn't offer tools to do that.  Although quite safe, there is always some minuscule possibility of a resize going badly.  I'd recommend you back up your really important files as well as make sure you have access to a Windows CD, in case you need to repair your installation.

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Originally posted by Ryxpia
It's all in your head, Damokun...

a). I don't have a disc burner.
b). I didn't run the LiveCD. It seems to only be for Linux or something (unknown file types were found in the .gz).

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You will probably need to find someone who can burn it for you. The liveCD should recognise those files when it boots- but it needs to boot, rather than Windows. I doubt it's trivial to boot to an .iso without burning it from Windows, but I have no experience there.

Though this is kind of strange. Far as I know, ext2/3 can be resized practically on the fly, so there's not much need for a standalone Linux partition manager? I know the Debian installer allows you to adjust ntfs partitions: that's too much hassle, but it shows it's possible. Interesting.

Well it seems everything rounded out perfectly, with me about to reboot to make some changes thanks to a ripped version of Partition Magic 8.0 (retrieved with a bit of help from Damokun ).

Thanks anyone and everyone who helped

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Originally posted by Ryxpia
Well it seems everything rounded out perfectly, with me about to reboot to make some changes thanks to a ripped version of Partition Magic 8.0 (retrieved with a bit of help from Damokun ).

Thanks anyone and everyone who helped

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Good luck

EDIT: That story is missing the end actually, as I ended up reformating anyway, as Windows wasn't working properly (but I was able to backup everything I had, so it was no biggie). Also note that my new site has a bigger awesomeness factor!

Just need to fix the emptyness factor