On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:44:58PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > People always sound so paranoid about losing data when repartitioning. > I've only repartitioned a couple of drives, always with the Mandrake > installer and I've never used Partition Magic, so I'm not really > experienced on this. So I want to ask kind of a poll question: > > How many of you have messed up a hard drive/lost data by using Partition > Magic? by using other non-PM repartitioning tools? (Please note I'm not > talking about things like a power outage in the middle of a > repartition--actually the program messing up itself.)
I've seen scary errors pop up with Partition Magic during resizes at
Install Fests. Something along the lines of, ``Er, somethin' went
wrong, and somethin' mighta got all messed up, but go ahead and reboot
that puppy and see if everythin's all right...'' Happily, everything
seemed to be okay, but errors occurred nonetheless. And errors on
hard disk devices do not make me happy.
Mike
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