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08-13-2003, 10:27 AM
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3rd party partitioning utilities
What are the effects on your computer if one of those "on the fly" programs like partion magic and stuff screws up and doesn't partition correctly?
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08-13-2003, 10:47 AM
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I haven't heard of partition magic messing up partitioning, unless the computer shut down or froze for some reason. But if it did mess up, scan disk would probably run and tell you something like the partitions are overlapping, a disk error, invalid partition, or something like that.
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08-13-2003, 11:31 AM
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With Partition Magic, you can make restore floppy disks that are supposed to fix things if something goes wrong. I have never had any problems with PM, however. I think my biggest fear would be the power failing when things are being moved around or some other type of catastrophic failure, not the software screwing things up.
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08-13-2003, 02:13 PM
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if partition magic did fail then you wood most lickley lose all your data on that hard drive and wood have to partition and format it agen but we have used partition magic hundrads of times at work and the only fail we had was bad ram caused a systom crash at the wrong time and we had to reinstall windows
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08-13-2003, 02:29 PM
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that's a relief... i heard that keeping your data other than windows or your o/s on another partition is safer and having another for backup is helpful too...
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08-13-2003, 08:58 PM
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I use Partition Magic all the time and have had it fail only once, but when the machine rebooted from the failure, it had not changed anything.
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08-14-2003, 10:13 AM
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so then can it create another partition for all the stuff that would originally be backed up onto cd's or tape drives (don't have ghost) and just reformat the original "c" drive then?
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08-14-2003, 01:02 PM
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yes it can
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