----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:13 AM Subject: RE: [H] Problem after partition merge
I would've used XP's convert from the FAT32 to NTFS then instead of merging slowly resize partitions as need with PM has always worked for me copying the files over from 1 partition to the other manually.
My success has been the same and I work the same as Wayne. I do not associate converting with resizing partitions. I consider converting as one function that I have Windows do one partition at a time. If I use Partition Magic I do not "stack" functions by ordering a series of more than one and then executing them. I select one function at a time and get it done first, then select another etc. Others have agreed that Partition Magic is more likely to ruin your data when it is attempting to run a sequence of commands.
Evidently your computer is running since you are reading this. If you have valuable data on your hard drive, back it up before you shut your computer down. I often add comments for all (including those with less experience in losing data) with many of my posts. So this is not to insult the intelligence of the few who practice good backup procedures. If you believe that your next shutdown is risky, surely you will believe that a conversion, a split, resize or merge is a very risky procedure. You will back up your data before you do this (unless you are impatient as I am at times and feel that I can do this thing, just this once.) I guess the big question is how did you go for weeks and accumulate all of that data on just one hard drive and not back it up along the way?
We still insist on thinking that a hard drive is for permanent storage and not just a temporary holding area for data. Some ask why we need 300 to 750 GB hard drives if we are not to consider them permanent storage areas. That space is to keep your data in a location that allows easy access while you are using your computer, not to permanently store it. Now that 4.5 GB per DVD disk is obsolete the same as a 1.44 MB floppy is obsolete, bring on Blue Ray! I have 100 GB on a partition I would like to back up on one permanent disk. In the past we did not want a pile of floppies. Later we did not want a pile of zip disks. Then we did not want a pile of 700 MB CD's. Now it would take a pile of DVD's to back up a partition that contains 100 GB of data.
Chuck
