Experience with 160GB hard disk

[Luc4]

Hi all! I want to tell you his experience I had.
I just bought two 160GB hard disks. I installed one in a machine with core 3 and one in a machine with windows xp installed. Only some difficulties with the fstab file under core 3, since it was the first time I was editing manuallt that file. No problems. With the qtparted utility I had no problems formatting ext3 the hd and creating two partitions. A matter of 1 minute, not more.
Eheheh, windows xp? I though it would have been even simpler. Never made such a mistake :-). First of all, service pack 1 was not installed, so I had to upgrade everything. As you can imagine sp1 had troubles. Anyway, at the end, I installed it. Then, I used partition magic to create the same partitions and formatting the hd. Well, another disaster. Pm rebooted the pc, and it didn't boot anymore. Anyway, I made the pc working again leaving only the old hd with windows xp installed, so I didn't have to format anything. But there was no way to make the hd work there.
Solution? I put that hard disk in my "Linux pc", and in some seconds I created the two ntfs partitions. As you can imagine, once reinstalled that hd in the windows xp pc, al worked correctly immediately. :-)
I was very puzzled :-). Ever thought it was simpler to install devices under windows. I don't think that this time it was simpler. In addiction, I have to say that partition magic was even far more slow than qtparted.
Very satisfied for what happened.
Sorry for disturbing, I only wanted to freely express something I noticed. That's all. :-) Perhaps you will tell me I've just discovered hot water? :-)
Hi all.

Luca

[Jman]

Interesting. Partition Magic has been touted as easy partition software, even to those who don't normally advocate Windows software. Perhaps parted based tools are catching up.

[Luc4]

Originally Posted by Jman

Interesting. Partition Magic has been touted as easy partition software, even to those who don't normally advocate Windows software. Perhaps parted based tools are catching up.

The only thing I can say is that it seems that partition magic has some more options. But, on the other hand, I think it has some problems. I've been using it for years and the percentage of times he works completely correct is not so high for me. Often it reboots the pc, and it won't boot anymore, for example. Or the partition process blocks, etc...
The thing that is interesting for me is that, for the first time after almost two years I've been using linux, I HAD to use linux to "help" windows :-)
Don't know if you agree.

Luca

[imdeemvp]

To me it was this article that helped me a lot: http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/

[Luc4]

Originally Posted by imdeemvp

To me it was this article that helped me a lot: http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/

Well, actually, I didn't have real troubles. The hard disk was correctly setup. The only problem is that I didn't know that Linux uses some hd space for filesystem management (more or less 5%). So I found two partitions completely empty 5% used :-).
Anyway, thanks for the link.

Luca