Let me tell you about the fun I had last night.

Stinkfinger · Jun 23, 2005

I'm a Battlefield nut. Needless to say I was super pumped yesterday to go pick up my copy of Battlefield 2. So I headed to Circuit City, got my copy and headed home. Before I installed it I decided to clean up my pc, get rid of old programs, clean the registry, update things that needed updating, make a new partition on my drive just for games. Everything was going swimmingly until the partitioning part. I decided to set 40GB aside for games, so I busted out Partition Magic 8 and went to work. When I was all finished up the pc needed a reboot for PM8 to create the partition. During the creation of the partition PM8 ran into a bad sector on my hard drive and couldn't complete the operation. "Great, now I've gotta go through it again" I think. So I reboot the pc. Nothing. "Must be a fluke" runs through my head. Reboot. Nothing. Goddam PM8 nuked my hard drive. It just kept rebooting itself. It would run through the post test, a blue screen would flash momentarily, then it would reboot, wash, rinse, repeat. I was ever so testy. The next several hours were spent reformatting, reinstalling and regretting using PM8 in the first place. And by the time I got BF2 installed it was way past the time I should have been in bed. *sigh* Maybe I'll have better luck tonight.

Saulbadguy · Jun 23, 2005

Did you backup before you did it?

meltdown75 · Jun 23, 2005

sounds like good times

Taggart · Jun 23, 2005

You should run a diagnostic on your drive to make sure it isn't defective. It sounds like it is.

Aharami · Jun 23, 2005

ouch. hope you have all the important files and documents backed up

BrokenVisage · Jun 23, 2005

Partition Magic is the most unpredictable piece of software ever compiled.

Saint Nick · Jun 23, 2005

everytime i used pm8 that happened to me. i quit using it lol

Stinkfinger · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: Aharami
ouch. hope you have all the important files and documents backed up

Luckily it was a pretty fresh install of everything that was on there, so I didn't lose anything of note.

Aharami · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: Stinkfinger

Originally posted by: Aharami
ouch. hope you have all the important files and documents backed up

Click to expand...

Luckily it was a pretty fresh install of everything that was on there, so I didn't lose anything of note.

:thumbsup:
wish i'd been that wise when my HD with all my music and 2 gigs of pics crashed

i still have the HD. maybe in 10 years from now, when the prices for data retrieval goes below $200, i will look into getting all those pics retrieved from that HD

mugs · Jun 23, 2005

Stories that start with "let me tell you about the fun I had last night" should start with you being really, really drunk, not buying a video game.

chuckywang · Jun 23, 2005

Partitioning with PM8 is like reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book.

quakefiend420 · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: mugs
Stories that start with "let me tell you about the fun I had last night" should start with you being really, really drunk, not buying a video game.

yeah, i expected a threesome story or a "i picked up this hot blonde at the bar" after i read the title...then after i read the description i thought she turned out to be 15 and you went to jail

Stinkfinger · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: mugs
Stories that start with "let me tell you about the fun I had last night" should start with you being really, really drunk, not buying a video game.

Duly noted.

Amused · Jun 23, 2005

Partitioning HDDs is a waste of time and energy anyhow.

Sorry to hear about your disaster, though.

edro · Jun 23, 2005

You violated the first rule of life:

Don't ever try to do anything, ever.

simms · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Partitioning with PM8 is like reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book.

That's awesome, almost sig material.

SouthPaW1227 · Jun 23, 2005

IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT

sorry to hear

necine · Jun 23, 2005

In the long run it's cheaper to do adhere to proper backup procedure then risk losing data.

maziwanka · Jun 23, 2005

nice to hear that everything was fine in the end....

reminds me - im gonna format the hdd on my laptop soon. gotta get it ready for school.

svi · Jun 23, 2005

That's why I always use command-line things like Ranish. Less chance of something screwing up, and if something does screw up I have the boot disk right there in the drive.

Partitioning with PM8 is like reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book.

This is so true that it's not even funny. Actually, no, I find it hilarious. But it's probably not funny when you're most able to realize how true it is.

Partitioning HDDs is a waste of time and energy anyhow.

Yeah, who needs partitions when you have the world's smallest magnetic needle?

Scarpozzi · Jun 23, 2005

That's why I stopped doing multiple partitions on a single drive. I just do NTFS and make it one massive volume. It's a lot easier.

chuckywang · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: simms

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Partitioning with PM8 is like reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book.

Click to expand...

That's awesome, almost sig material.

Ooh, that'll be a first for me!

shilala · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Partition Magic is the most unpredictable piece of software ever compiled.

...and it sucks.

spanky · Jun 23, 2005

have yet to run into a prob with partition magic. now that i said this, i am expecting the next time i use pm8, my hd will explode.

Mandos · Jun 23, 2005

Originally posted by: Stinkfinger
I'm a Battlefield nut. Needless to say I was super pumped yesterday to go pick up my copy of Battlefield 2. So I headed to Circuit City, got my copy and headed home. Before I installed it I decided to clean up my pc, get rid of old programs, clean the registry, update things that needed updating, make a new partition on my drive just for games. Everything was going swimmingly until the partitioning part. I decided to set 40GB aside for games, so I busted out Partition Magic 8 and went to work. When I was all finished up the pc needed a reboot for PM8 to create the partition. During the creation of the partition PM8 ran into a bad sector on my hard drive and couldn't complete the operation. "Great, now I've gotta go through it again" I think. So I reboot the pc. Nothing. "Must be a fluke" runs through my head. Reboot. Nothing. Goddam PM8 nuked my hard drive. It just kept rebooting itself. It would run through the post test, a blue screen would flash momentarily, then it would reboot, wash, rinse, repeat. I was ever so testy. The next several hours were spent reformatting, reinstalling and regretting using PM8 in the first place. And by the time I got BF2 installed it was way past the time I should have been in bed. *sigh* Maybe I'll have better luck tonight.

and that is why I hate partition magic. Its dangerous, shoddy, and just completely useless to me.

Let me tell you about the fun I had last night.

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