Partition Magic - no thanks!

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Thought I'd bore people on here with my ramblings :)

Have always posted that I've always used Partition Magic when resizing partitions, used it yesterday to resize my Vista x64 OS partition and well it had to happen, it completely screwed everything up. Result C: drive booted up but with loads of errors, E: drive contents visible but partition table error and F: drive not visible and a partition error.

Turns out the PM8 may not be compatible with Vista x64, huh? I thought NTFS was NTFS?

Had to use active file recovery to recover the files from E: and F: before reformatting them both, then used Paragon Partition Manager to check and then eventually resize the C: drive. All in all 2 days down the pan, plenty of raised heart rate and it sort of taught me 3 valuable lessons, a) don't touch thinks unless they are broke and b) back important things up, the E: drive on my system had family pics and vids since when the kids were babies and lastly c) Don't use PM8 as I'm now in the PM8 can really screw you up club. :D
 
Why not just use the built in Vista Disk Managment snap in? I thought that was pretty good as you can easily shrink and extend partitions. I have Vista x64 HP.
 
suarve said:
Why not just use the built in Vista Disk Managment snap in? I thought that was pretty good as you can easily shrink and extend partitions. I have Vista x64 HP.
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Did start off with that but you can't expand the system disk AFAIK.
 
IAmATeaf said:
Did start off with that but you can't expand the system disk AFAIK.
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I know that was the case with Server 2003 (had to do it recently on a live server, not so much fun) but Vista doesn't have that limitation. My father purchased a new laptop that had a data partition as well as a main windows one, he wanted them merged and it was a very simply process with the built-in tools.
 
philjohn said:
I know that was the case with Server 2003 (had to do it recently on a live server, not so much fun) but Vista doesn't have that limitation. My father purchased a new laptop that had a data partition as well as a main windows one, he wanted them merged and it was a very simply process with the built-in tools.
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I'll have a play on another Vista PC but I'm sure when I tried it it wouldn't even let me select the system disk.

It's all sorted now and I've even backed up the important stuff to my NAS drive.
 
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