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fvck you partition magic /rant

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no0b

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fvck you God D@/\/\NIT.
Okay so I tried to make a partition for a linux installation and now I have to reformate my whole hard drive. I tried to make a another partition for the linux install but it would never give it a drive letter so it was unallocated. So I tried to merge the unallocated back into the partition from once it came. But partition magic is so stupid (or am I stupid for using it) it said that operation cannot be completed because of too few clusters (WTF does that mean). So it made that partition unallocated. Now I cant access any of the data I had on it. I knew I should have made those recovery disks but I doubt it would have helped.

any input before I reformate
 
yeah, youre dumb as a brick. Linux partition is in ext2 (or 3) , so windows isnt gonna give it a letter , cuz it doesnt read it.

Im not sure if i got the scenario right, but i would do is delete the ext2 (linux) patrtition and resize the original partition (it will suck in the empty space)
 


<< yeah, youre dumb as a brick. Linux partition is in ext2 (or 3) , so windows isnt gonna give it a letter , cuz it doesnt read it. >>



lol.. then they'res people like me who partition it right the first time with fdisk and drisk druid and dont need jury-rigging and hard-drive-frying utilities like Partition Magic
 
Ant werent you that one that got kicked out of a computer class for doing nothing?. Did I kick you in the balls when you were on the ground? How did it feel to you when the others did kick you in the nuts? so STFU and how did I F up the program its the one that F up it gave me some B.S. error that there were too few clusters (which yes I dont understand wtf that means)
(b4 he edited his post o halik thanks for your wonderful input I really need that now)
 


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<< yeah, youre dumb as a brick. Linux partition is in ext2 (or 3) , so windows isnt gonna give it a letter , cuz it doesnt read it. >>



lol.. then they'res people like me who partition it right the first time with fdisk and drisk druid and dont need jury-rigging and hard-drive-frying utilities like Partition Magic >>



Well at least you agree that Partition Magic sucks. But i decieded to install linux after installing XP and i really didnt want to completly reformate
 
Well I fixed it sort of I reformated the D partition so i lost all the data. but at least i know enough to backup everything. so all i have to do is reinstall the appz/games/mp3s
 
It should work I had pretty much the same secnario you described. So I installed my os onto D and burned all my data to disk then reformatted. I think its always a good idea to have your hdd partitioned incase you cant boot because windows f ed up
 
i think the not enuff clusters error means theres no more unallocted space left.

Im not sure how you ended up losing the data, but if you tried converiting the mp3 partition eto linux (ext2 f/s)...duh 🙂
 


<< i think the not enuff clusters error means theres no more unallocted space left.

Im not sure how you ended up losing the data, but if you tried converiting the mp3 partition eto linux (ext2 f/s)...duh 🙂 >>



no no no I tried to make a partition out of the free space in the mp3 (D) drive
I lost the data because I formated the D drive so windows will reconize it again (all other options were depleted)
 
I've spoken to only two other people who have tried PM and both totally hosed their systems. It may be good but evidently it's not very easy to use.
 


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<< It may be good but evidently it's not very easy to use. >>



Not very easy to use...compared to what, FDISK? It has a clean interface and nothing technically written, whats the difficult part? >>



When it fs up of course 😉
 
what? Partition magic is almost idiot proof. Its got wizzards that do whatever you want. The only way to f*ckup is when you dunno what youre doing.

Like i said what you should have done is delete the linux partition and rezise the d partition to the full size. You cant merge 2 partition with different filesystems
 
partition magic is the only thing you can use beside FDISK, and I never use FDISK after getting use to PM.
is the best dang partition program their is, and not cheap either like 69.99.
 
question, dont u have to have an os already installed to use PM ? so what good is it for partitioning your drive pre-os-install ? nevermind if it has some boot floppy fdish replacement..

I always plan my system ahead and partition using the OS's cd-boot paritioner, be it Redhat or 2k/XP
 


<< Not very easy to use...compared to what, FDISK? It has a clean interface and nothing technically written, whats the difficult part? >>

I have use PM for about 5 years now, dated back to the original. I have seen more people messing up their hard drive with PM than with FDISK. PM is a powerful utility program, but it does require the user to know what he is doing.

The error detection of PM is far from perfect, and its repair operation can render a perfectly fine partition in-operable. You can blame all of the miship on the user. But it does no negate the fact that more powerful tool is also more dangereous tool.
 
Linux has it's own partitioning tools built in that are free and nearly as powerful as PM, use em if you are planning to learn to use Linux.
 
:| It's my term to bitching! My copy of PM 6 refuses to works with anything but the english version of windows. It also won't converts a dynamic disk to basic disk under Windows 2000. $65 wasted.
 
Dunno if this is pertinent here, but .........................

(The Inquirer)

Windows XP wants your hard drive partitions

And doesn't like competition

By Mike Magee, 23/11/2001 07:50:57 BST

WE'VE BEEN MEANING TO pass this one by you for a while, but thought we'd let it stew a litte more.
When you install the XP upgrade package it overwrites the Master Boot Record to ensure that you point to the boot partition.
Of course, that's where you already are, because you're running from it. By doing so, XP effectively kills your boot manager.
Does this matter? Well the partition is important.
One of our readers yesterday downloaded Linux Mandrake 8.1 and used a box running an eval of WinXP home.
Mandrake in its new rev gives an option to resize the current partition to make room for Linux in the free space.
XP doesn't seem to want to play this game, and gives messages saying the partition can't be resized.
In our readers' case, there was over 2GB of a 4GB hard drive unused - the partition was formatter to FAT 32 and XP ended up being deleted because this was the only way to install Linux.
He suggests that Microsoft intentionally does this so that other OSes cannot co-exist. Surely that can't be true? µ
 
<<lol.. then they'res people like me who partition it right the first time with fdisk and drisk druid and dont need jury-rigging and hard-drive-frying utilities like Partition Magic >>

I've never had problems running PQMagic
 
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