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situations. The following tools, which are available from other
vendors, offer some additional flexibility, convenience, and
capabilities.

Partition Managers

These alternatives to Fdisk let you resize a partition without
destroying the data it contains, and they offer other features (such
as converting NTFS to FAT32) as well:
• PartitionMagic, from PowerQuest Corporation
(www.powerquest.com)
• Partition Commander, from V Communications (www.v-
com.com)

Boot Managers

These alternatives to the Windows 2000 boot manager let you
install more than one copy of Windows 9x and provide better
support for additional operating systems:
• BootMagic, from PowerQuest Corporation
• BootPart, from Gilles Vollant Software
(www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm)
• System Commander Deluxe, from V Communications

Something Completely Different

A company called VMware (www.vmware.com) has created a
completely different alternative that allows you to use multiple
operating systems. Their product, also called VMware, sets up
multiple virtual machines within your Windows 2000 host
machine. The virtual machine runs in a window (or you can run it
full screen), and it looks and acts just like the real thing - starting
with the BIOS routine that runs when you click the Power On
button. It can give you access to all your computer's hardware
resources, including network cards and CD-ROM drives. You can
even set up an entire "network" of virtual machines on a single
computer. It's a truly remarkable program, and it seems to work