nekrosoft13 Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 is it safe to resize partitions on windows xp?? i have to make one partition smaller to make one bigger. last time i did that on windows 98 my whole partition got mested up. is it safe to do it with windows xp and ntfs drives. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 does any one know?? i'm waiting to for a good answer. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 i know about the partition magic. but is it safe?? so it won't mest up my partions. i need to make my os partition larger. p.s. my 400 post :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingpin666666 Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Use Partition Magic 7. It works with XP/NTFS. Did it myself. Kingpin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 it better be i will try it now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM5K Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 There is always a chance of loosing data when you modify partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted January 27, 2002 chances are nothing will ever happen. To be sure, run a full disk scan on the drive if you REALLY want to be sure, but the chances of something screwing up is VERY low. I've even had partition magic give an error in the middle of a repartition with no problems whatsoever. So, I say it's very safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 ****, **** ****, **** **** god damn it , mutha ****a i lost my whole ****ing partition :disappoin 25 gb of stuff gone i have to re download everything :s most of it was movies, and music vids and some mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted January 27, 2002 well, clearly you messed something up. did you do a disk scan? what settings did you use? 90% of the time, repartition problems are the fault of the user. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcalibur Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 are u kidding, or did it really mess up? cuz i've resize partitons all the time, and i've never had a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmax22 Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Bummer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truman Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 !!!WARNING!!! What ever you do don't use partition magic 7 to repartion a drive windows 2000/XP on it it wipes it all out and you get a blue screen when you reboot. You will lose EVERTHING. Make sure you back up all your HD first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfraser Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Dude, don't instantly tell people not to use something because it screwed up on YOUR computer. Just because something happened to YOU doesn't mean it will happen to someone else. I've resized partitions with PartitionMagic 7.0 on Windows XP Pro (All NTFS partitions) numerous times, and it's worked perfectly. Perhaps it's your setup, your copy, or perhaps you did something wrong? Next time, don't go off your nut telling people that it's the end of the world, because 95% of the time, it's not. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davjak Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Originally posted by Truman !!!WARNING!!! What ever you do don't use partition magic 7 to repartion a drive windows 2000/XP on it it wipes it all out and you get a blue screen when you reboot. You will lose EVERTHING. Make sure you back up all your HD first. I used Partition Magic 7 on WinXP Pro to change my C: 20GB and D: 18Gb partitions into C: 15.5GB D: 16.5Gb and E: 5GB It had no problem resizing and making a new partition.. Infact it was easier than I thought.. It sounds like you made a mistake and wiped out the contents of you hdd yaself.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truman Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 Ok sorry i did go a bit mad, it screwed up my xp install first, then i formatted and tryed it again and it did it again, i then tryed it on win2k and it did the same. It does it on my mates laptop too, i'd just recommend to anyone who is going to use PM7 to back up ALL their HD first as i lost nearly 5GB of Mp3's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted January 27, 2002 5gb? that's all? try 35gb of full albums. try 500gb of full albums like a friend of mine. but, seriously, backups are recommended i suppose, but I've never had a problem with partition magic EVER. I've used it on numerous systems across numerous setups. I don't see how you can go and screw it up that bad. I think you just set something wrong and didn't really understand what you did. Maybe you didn't even delete your data, you just don't know how to get at it... *shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 i did nothing wrong it was resizing it, and at about 70% mark it just froze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tux Posted January 27, 2002 Share Posted January 27, 2002 You sure it just "froze" or were you impatient cuz it was standing still for a little bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 it froze because i felt it allone for a really long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted January 30, 2002 Share Posted January 30, 2002 500Gigs, that's a bit exaggerated, don't you think? Anyways, Partition Magic 7 f*ed me too. I lost 40Gigs worth of stuff... be it songs, movies, games, apps, and heh porn. Guess Partition Magic 7 does mess up sometimes. It frozed for me too, damn thing just sit there for like an hour. I don't remember precisely, but it was almost done too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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