mini-rant/observation on partition magic...

[gopunk]

i don't know what the deal is with partition magic and xp, but something is not right. i have a fresh install of xp, so everything should theoretically work.... except in 3 usages, i have yet to go through a complete operation successfully.

the first time, i was creating a 10 gb partition... went fine, up to step 3 of 3... then it stopped. and did nothing. for a long long time.

so i reboot...
and thankfully was able to get into windows... from there i formatted the partition using windows' tool.

then today, i decided i wanted another partition, this one 50 gb.
it goes to the screen where it says PM is preparing for operations, and then it does nothing.

so i reboot...
then it goes, and resizes partitions, then does nothing

so i reboot...
goes into windows (since original info has changed)... and naturally, windows shows the resized partitions, but not the missing space.
so i go into partition magic, and tell it to create a partition using the empty space. works fine, gets to 80%... the system locks up. i can't move my mouse.

so i reboot...
and through whatever stroke of luck, everything is the way i want it when i log in.



now you see why i wonder what's going on with PM...

 

[Elledan]

Many programs like PM (firewalls, antivirus software etc.) have problems when running in XP.

Blame Micros~1.

 

[MikeO]

I've never had a single problem using PM in Win95/98/2k, haven't tried in XP (and propably never will..).

 

[dc]

same type of crap happened to me too when i was installing xp and messing with partition magic.

lost 40gb of anime that way.

 

[gopunk]

<< I've never had a single problem using PM in Win95/98/2k, haven't tried in XP (and propably never will..). >>



i don't recommend doing so i've used it without problems in those os' too.. dunno what happened here.

 

[gopunk]

<< Many programs like PM (firewalls, antivirus software etc.) have problems when running in XP.
Blame Micros~1. >>



i would.... except xp isn't running when PM is doing it's stuff. at least i don't think it is....

 

[CSoup]

I've had too many problems with partition magic in the past to trust it. I prefer to do clean format and partitioning. Also, XP has an updated version of NTFS. Is PM compatible with the new NTFS?

 

[Mitzi]

<< i would.... except xp isn't running when PM is doing it's stuff. at least i don't think it is.... >>



Yeah but the XP uses an updated version of the NTFS filesystem

I've never trusted these sort of partition tools - I'd never trust my [/i]live[/i] data with it.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

You do have PM 7.0 right? Earlier versions do indeed not support XP.

 

[SyahM]

<< You do have PM 7.0 right? Earlier versions do indeed not support XP. >>



it's still very troublesome even though i'm using PM 7.0, something is very wrong, i have to redo the task many times to get it done, very annoying and needless to say, very uncomforting.

 

[gopunk]

<< You do have PM 7.0 right? Earlier versions do indeed not support XP. >>



yes i do...

which is why i still blame PM... if it's not going to work, you shouldn't advertise it as such.