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

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Stinkfinger

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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.
 
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Taggart

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

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Originally posted by: Aharami
ouch. hope you have all the important files and documents backed up
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Luckily it was a pretty fresh install of everything that was on there, so I didn't lose anything of note.

 
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Aharami

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Originally posted by: Stinkfinger
Originally posted by: Aharami
ouch. hope you have all the important files and documents backed up
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Luckily it was a pretty fresh install of everything that was on there, so I didn't lose anything of note.
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: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
 
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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.
 
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quakefiend420

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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.
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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 :p
 
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Stinkfinger

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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.
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Duly noted.
 
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Partitioning HDDs is a waste of time and energy anyhow.

Sorry to hear about your disaster, though. :(
 
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edro

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You violated the first rule of life:

Don't ever try to do anything, ever.
 
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necine

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

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

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