Partition Magic su*ks.

[kimatrix]

Ke i hated this program already but i thougt, kimatrix don't be such a hard ass they already releasd version 8 so go and try it.
So that's what i did. I installed partition on my windows partition. I runned it and i wanted to make the windows partition smaller. So i did that and acepted it, now only reboot is left.
(between lines, i got a dual boot with GRUB (linux/windows)).
So i let it reboot my pc and what do i see when it tried to start windows nothing :S
I booted in me linux to see wher my windows is, and what do i see. Exactly NOTHING it erased my whole hd :S
I don't know what the hell partition do, but i certenly didn't sad to it to erase my whole partition :s

Conclusion :P
Ach a big lessen is learned, don't ewer try to ***** with windows and partition magic they will ***** you more :P


Btw before you guys think i am pissed or anything, you have to see this as funny text. Its not a big deal but i still wanted to share it with you guys.

[ewdi]

sorry to hear about that, i knwo how frustrating it is to lose all your data.

[edal]

And the backups of your data are where ?

Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary

[James]

I've used partition magic for over 3 years now and i've never had any problems. personally i think it is a good application.

I made my windows partition(ntfs) 30gb smaller to install core 2 yesterday and it worked fine, no problems at all.

Did you read the warning about things to do before you perform any changes.

Back up your hard disk.

Your data is the most valuable part of your machine. Although it is unlikely that PartitionMagic would damage your data, other system failures, such as hardware, software, or power, can put your data at risk if they occur during PartitionMagic operations. PowerQuest's Drive Image is useful for creating an image backup of the partitions you want to change. You can also use Drive Image to restore the image partitions to their original state.

[kimatrix]

James, it's not a big deal that the data is lost i got backup's. But the problem is i tryed this program in the past and it mest uped my hd and i tryed it out now and again it messed uped my hd :S

And yes i read the whole think before i did apply.

Btw glad to hear you have good experince with the tool. Maybe it's just my bad luck or something with this program.

[ghaefb]

Try parted(Qtparted). Works like a charm...

[jcstille]

I do believe you must be careful using Partition Magic with certain hardware configurations. I know on more of my standard configurations it is fine. Other configurations it will mess things up (but never had a full data loss)

[Techtoucian]

I was performing maintenance on my disks under Windows 2000 the other day. I was using a third party defrag tool, and randoming about. to cut a long story shorter, I rebooted and checkdisk decided it would rearrange my main Windows drive, corrupting everything in its path. I lost everything, though I had (slightly outdated) backups.

The good thing about this is that instead of installing Windows again, I decided that I'd give Fedora (core 1) a go instead. This is now the longest I've ever used Linux without being irritated to death with it, and I'm pretty sure that if I screwed it up tomorrow, I still wouldn't go back to Windows.

So there's the feel-good windows-to-linux conversion story of the week. It's a little off-topic, but forgive me. :-)

Consequently, I discovered that most of the applications that I was using under Windows came by default on the fedora discs.

[cathal]

well you learn from your mistakes

[mick]

The first thing I did when I decided to take the Linux plunge was to download Acronis Partition Expert. It not only lives on a WinXP drive, but there is the option to make a 'handy rescue disk' with the capacity to not only see all partitions on all drives, but move or copy to a (freshly formatted) blank partition. This disk can also be used as a stand-alone partitioning tool on any box before going in with, say, Linux on a Windows box (just makes the Linux install a bunch easier...). The manual mode gives great control and it has the two-part execute that makes messin' up a lot harder. The gui looks and acts very similar to Qtparted.
It's saved me more than a few re-installations and headaches! :D

Besides, in the grand scheme of things, it's cheap insurance...

[imdeemvp]

i use partition commander and never had a problem with it....

[Varkk]

I have never had a problem with Partition magic, but others I know seem to lose their Hard drives if they even think about it. I guess it really depends n your configuration etc. But stll they do say to backup everything in the manual, and various popup warnings when running the application.

[Fedayn]

I agree: PM sucks! I tried to make a partition and then I wasn't able to load Windows. Anyhow I must be thankful to this program because it made me install Fedora only :p

[LackeyLad]

also agreed. partition magic is good for win only use. ever since i have used a dual boot that program blows balls. hense, read my post in general.

[peterskm]

I have had great experiences with Partition Magic. It has saved the day on more than one occasion. I've never lost data while using it. That said, I've only used it with Windows and on Windows partitions (ntfs, FAT, FAT32).

[rkl]

If I want to ever re-partition (it's fairly rare I would do this - maybe once a year), I just download the latest version of the excellent BootitNG from http://www.bootitng.com/ and create a BootItNG boot floppy. Boot from that and you get a mini-windowing environment with pretty straightforward options. I do my re-partitioning and then delete the program, because it's shareware. If I used it more regularly, I'd probably consider buying it. Extremely impressive coding for what you get on a 1.44MB floppy.