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Chapter 1: Getting Started4
PartitionMagic System Requirements
PartitionMagic for Windows requires a minimum of 70 MB of hard disk space, a CD drive
(any speed), a 3.5-inch floppy drive, VGA or higher resolution monitor with a screen area
of at least 800 x 600 pixels, and processor and memory requirements as shown below.
* Resizing NTFS clusters on partitions over 120 GB in size requires 256 MB RAM.
PartitionMagic supports hardware RAID level 0 (disk striping) and RAID level 5 (striping
with parity).
PartitionMagic supports external USB, USB2, and FireWire (1394) hard drives under
Windows. Operations that are executed in boot mode are not supported on these devices.
See “USB, USB2, and FireWire Support” on page 17.
The rescue disk version of PartitionMagic requires a Pentium/150 MHz processor (or
faster), a 3.5-inch floppy drive, 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for NTFS partitions; 32 MB
recommended for FAT32 partitions; some very large partitions may require up to 256
MB). Microsoft recommends 128 MB RAM for Windows 2000 and Windows XP
systems, although the product can run on systems with 64 MB RAM.
Installing PartitionMagic under Windows
You must have administrative privileges to install PartitionMagic on a Windows NT,
Windows 2000, or Windows XP system.
IMPORTANT! PartitionMagic must be installed on a local drive, not on a network drive.
Operating System Minimum RAM Minimum Processor
Windows 95b through
Windows 98 SE
32 MB Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows Me 32 MB Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows NT 4.0
Workstation with SP6a
applied
32 MB* Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows 2000
Professional
64 MB* Pentium/150 MHz or compatible
Windows XP 128 MB* Pentium/233 MHz or compatible