Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:57:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitioning warning w/EZ-Drive & Partition Magic
I lost the single 30GB >8GB partition on my 40GB HDD
the other night while using Partition Magic to convert
3 primary partitions before and after the 8GB border
to logical partitions on one big extended partition
straddling the 8GB boundry.
This is the 2nd or 3rd time something like this has
happened, and I'm beginning to think that it has
something to do with EZ-Drive. The method I used was
to boot PM from a FD by hitting CTRL at the EZ-Drive
prompt.
I converted 3 partitions to logical partitions one at
a time. 1st a 5GB primary partition <8GB. Then 2nd,the
partition for Libretto hibernation at the 8GB boundry.
Those both went fine. But attempting to convert the
30GB primary partition >8GB resulted in PM freezing
about 1/2 the way from completion which made the
partition unrecognizable. Note: There is a 3GB
primary partition at the beginning of the drive.
This has happened to me in a similar manner at least 2
times in the past. But at least this time it was easy
to recover the partition data, as I've had a lot of
experience with recovery problems at this point. I
can highly recommend the Stellar Phoenix recovery
software.
But if I ever do any >8GB partitioning on a Libby HDD
again, I'm going to 1st uninstall EZ-Drive, pull the
HDD and set it up in a desktop that can deal with
int13 extensions (is that the right term?), and run
Partition Magic from there. I'm suspecting that
something between the dance of PM, EZ-Drive and the
Libby BIOS is causing the problem.
Just thought I'd add this to the archives if anyone
else every confronts a similar problem in the future.
Don't suppose anyone else has seen something like
this, have they?
Matt
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