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.
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.
