Re: Desperate! What's the best way to partition 160GB hard disk

Tweek <shawnwinget123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

Data loss is possible at any time with any program, especially if you are manipulating
partitions and file systems.

Yes, but PM manages to screw a drive when resizing partitions
much more often than say XP does when just using the drive.

It was implied that the use of partition magic would result in guaranteed data loss.

No that was not implied.


"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tweek <shawnwinget123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"John Weiss" <jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet> wrote
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"johns" <johns321@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

Forgot. Partition Magic creates a "partition magic"
partition. It is NOT AN NTFS PARTITION, and
it will give you a world of grief down the road.
Don't touch that piece of garbage for any reason,
and if anybody comes on this thread and says
otherwise, I wil eat him alive. Partition Magic
is a good way to lose all your data if you crash
and try to recover.

Otherwise.

There is no such thing as an "NTFS partition" AFAIK.

A partition is NOT associated with a file system; on a Wintel
system it is either Primary or Extended. A file system is not
created until the partition is formatted; and either type of
partition, whether created with fdisk, Disk Manager, Partition
Magic, or other utility, can be formatted with any desired file
system. I have had NO problems with Partition Magic (v5 through 7) and NTFS
on 5 NT4, Win2K, and XP machines so far.



It seems that if johns does not know how to use something properly
or configure it properly it is 'crap'. Like his rants about Asus
boards or his insistance that you can't put anything on the primary
IDE channel if you are using a SATA hard drive. I have used
partition magic for years and I use it every day with no problems
at all. I use Acronis True image to image drives and then use
partition magic to resize, merge, or delete partitions as
necessary. Never had any lost data.

Others have had PM lose data tho. Its safest to image the
entire physical drive first, because PM can screw up at times.


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