Yes, if you're going to use Diskdrake to set up your HD, you CANNOT go
back in and resize it with Partition Magic. They are different enough to
result in mysterious data loss over a period of time and eventually,
you'll end up losing everything. I had this experience over several
machines and this is the response I received from Powerquest Partition
Magic's tech-support.
Sevatio
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On 8/8/01, 6:28:51 AM, Robin Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:00 am, you wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives,
> > but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that
> > was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the
> > drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not
sure
> > why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I
even
> > went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk,
and
> > create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd
> > off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it,
> > then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing
> > at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the
drive.
> > Anyway, anyone else having this problem?
> I have read somewhere, but can't remember where, That if you are going to
> install Windows on a partition then you should format that partition with
the
> dos version of fdisk as supplied with windows or with the disk
installation
> floppy. I believe the linux version of fdisk formats a dos partition
slightly
> differently.
> Hope this helps,
> Robin
