I did something really stupid today

RobCur

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I hope some of you will learn from my mistakes. If you going to resize your hd using partition magic 8.x with xp, always backup your stuff. I have about 80gb worth of data on my d: letter which I've tried to resize in windows, it kept saying errors cannot resize. so I instead try it in safe mode, then it was crawling like a turtle and I've tried cancel it but windows has locked up so I crash the program by using alt=ctrl=del
the next thing is, letter d is so corrupted that I could see nothing on it.
windows would keep complaining that it is inaccessible and that it's corrupted.
I've tried for 3 hrs trying to recover it with active undelete with no luck. I give up so I wipe the partition clean and create a new one. In the end, I dunno whether to be mad at myself or the partition magic being a flawed program that fucksup your partition once in awhile. Wondering why safe mode is so slow, I'd boot into safe mode and do a hdtach 2.7 benchmark, and behold, 1.2mb/sec burst rate, throughtput speed. My god, it is this slow, even dos is much faster then this. MS+Powerquest = screw you real good :|
Partition is not something that it is fun to mess with, even while partitioning and if the power goes off due to power outage, lightning, or someone accidently unplugged the power cord you're SOL.


 

stevty2889

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I've had that happen with partion magic within windows as well. I find it's best to make the floppy disks and run it outside of windows..
 

DaveSimmons

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Another reason why I now use Acronis Partition Expert instead of PM, even though I was a loyal PM user for many years.
 

BillyBatson

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Originally posted by: Baked
Partition Magic is junkware. I use Fdisk.

isn't too bad at all, i have never had probs wih it especially the boot floppys! in 3 diff situations fdisk couldn't help and i needed to use partition magic to recover parts of the HD that couldn't be seen with anything else


sorry for everything you went through, that sucks
 

Auric

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Isn't it supposed to automatically prompt to reboot into command line mode for resizing? Or was this a seperate drive and the boot partition was not involved? Anyway, seems kinda crazy to risk it from Windows. Safe Mode no better (actually worse, apparently). When in doubt use the floppies. I always run two HDD's with one exclusively as removeable backup. Sad thing is, the partition was likely recoverable with the right knowledge and tools. Svend Olaf Mikkelsenhelped me out with a similar problem a number of years ago. Did you seek help even from the anandtech forums before giving up and deleting?