Things to remember with PartitionMagic: It's now a Symantec 'supported' product
1 - Run chkdsk etc on the partition(s) first - ensure that the file, space allocation and indexes have no errors, crosslinks etc. 2 - Remember that for some processes PM creates a flat structure for the files on your partition, so - if the process fails then you can lose all the directory structuring, and the real filenames 3 - While the process is altering the partition information on your drive, it could find errors in the existing structure, and/or create some faults itself so create a backup of the partition definitions that you can restore if needed - another reason for 4 below 4 - Avoid getting PM to do multiple processes on any partition create, moving, converting, relabelling, setting active etc. all in 1 pass is more likely to leave you with unrecoverable data than if you split the process so that the analysis process checks the structure after each part of the process KISS And - yes - Do make sure you have a backup of your data (the stuff you have spent months typing in) JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:00 PM Subject: Re: How to merge partitions? > On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 07:08:59 -0400, Chuck Andrews wrote: > > >When you use PartitionMagic (always back up all of your data before any > >risky procedure such as this) it has to move lots of your data around in the > >process of splitting, merging and/or resizing partitions. This is risky and > >time consuming. > > I think backups are good generally and that partition work for some is inherently > risky; however, having said that I have taken no special steps to backup and my > experience with PM has not been particularly time consuming. I suppose it all > depends on the amount of data on the drive. I've never lost data with PM, which may > mean that I am very lucky and/or the product is reasonably stable and well-tested. > -- > cheers, Stephen > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
