Does PartitionMagic work with compressed drives or compression software?
Yes. However, PartitionMagic works only on the host drive. PartitionMagic cannot modify the compressed volume in any way. Compressed drives are made up of two partitions: the compressed volume and the host drive. The compressed volume contains the actual data and the host volume contains information on how to access the compressed volume. To reduce the size of a partition that is compressed, you must first use the compression software to reduce the size of the compressed volume (or increase the amount of uncompressed free space on the drive). By doing this, PartitionMagic is given enough space to “resize” the host partition. When creating new partitions on a compressed volume, you need to make sure that any new partitions are created after the host volume. This is because the host and compressed volumes are linked together by the drive letters; if the drive letter assigned to the host volume changes, you will not be able to access the compressed volume.
