Bad sector checking is on by default. PartitionMagic lets you set this preference individually for each of your hard disks. If your system has an older disk and a newer one, you could check the older disk and skip the newer one. A check mark next to a disk means to skip bad sector checking for that disk.
Set as Read-Only for PartitionMagic
This preference lets you prevent PartitionMagic from making any changes to a hard disk. You can set this preference individually for each of your hard disks.
There are some exceptions to how this preference is applied:
•If the disk contains the boot partition, some files may be changed, such as the Windows NT boot initialization (BOOT.INI) file.
•If you tell PartitionMagic to run DriveMapper automatically, certain files, such as initialization files and shortcut files, may be changed.
Using International Keyboards
When you use the DOS version of PartitionMagic (see “Running PartitionMagic from Rescue Disks” on page 8), you may lose the ability to use your keyboard the way you are accustomed to or to view extended characters properly. The PartitionMagic rescue disks include the files you need to resolve these problems.
If you use an international keyboard or character set, you must edit the AUTOEXE2.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files on the rescue disks.
1The following lines are remarked in the AUTOEXE2.BAT file. Delete the REM from the beginning of the line, and replace the variables xx and yyy with the keyboard code and character set code page for your language.
MODE CON CP PREP=((yyy)EGA.CPI) MODE CON CP SEL=yyy
KEYB xx,yyy
xx=
2Save the AUTOEXE2.BAT file.
3The following line is remarked in the CONFIG.SYS file. Delete the REM from the beginning of the line, and replace the variable yyy with the character set code page for your language.
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