NOTE Before installing PartitionMagic 8.0 under Windows 2000, ensure you have updated the operating system with the latest Microsoft Service Pack (SP2 or greater).
As a good computing practice, regardless of operating system, run chkdsk /f before running Partition Magic to make sure there are no file system errors on the partition.
1Insert the PartitionMagic CD into your CD drive.
2If the installation program does not start automatically, click Start ➤ Run on the Windows taskbar. Then type drive:\AUTORUN, where drive is the drive letter of your CD drive.
3Click PartitionMagic ➤ Install, and follow the
There is sometimes a delay after you click Install. If you click it twice, you will start two instances of the installation and will have to cancel the second one.
Creating Rescue Disks
You can run a DOS version of PartitionMagic or the BootMagic configuration program from the PartitionMagic CD if your computer has the ability to boot from a CD. If your computer cannot boot from a CD, Norton recommends that you create rescue diskettes at the end of the PartitionMagic installation.
You can create rescue disks from the PartitionMagic CD or from the Start menu. The bootable CD and rescue disks also enable you to run PartitionMagic from DOS, Windows 3.x, or Linux machines.
Rescue disks are useful when:
•You want to run PartitionMagic, but you do not have an operating system that is supported by the Windows version of the software.
•You have hidden the partition where PartitionMagic is installed and need to run PartitionMagic to unhide the partition.
•You have accidently converted a partition to FAT32 or NTFS and your operating system does not support that operating system, so your computer will not boot. (You can use the rescue disks to convert the partition back to FAT.)
•Other occasions arise when you do not have access to PartitionMagic on the CD or hard drive.
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