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kilgoretrout · 05-15-2007, 07:23 AM

I would recommend the zero fill. When I've had too many different OSes writing to the partition table, it was the only way to get things back to normal on some of my hard drives. Different OSes handle partitions in slightly different ways and this occasionally causes problems that can only be solved with a zero fill.
Re partioning tools, there's a nice free bootable cd with a PM clone called gparted:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

It's linux based and works very well for both windows and linux partitioning tasks. PM has terrible linux support. The best commercial tool if you will be partitioning for both windows and linux is Acronis Disk Director.

05-15-2007, 07:23 AM	#24
kilgoretrout Member (11 bit) Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 1,524	I would recommend the zero fill. When I've had too many different OSes writing to the partition table, it was the only way to get things back to normal on some of my hard drives. Different OSes handle partitions in slightly different ways and this occasionally causes problems that can only be solved with a zero fill. Re partioning tools, there's a nice free bootable cd with a PM clone called gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php It's linux based and works very well for both windows and linux partitioning tasks. PM has terrible linux support. The best commercial tool if you will be partitioning for both windows and linux is Acronis Disk Director.