So I'm partitioning my hard drive with partition magic. I don't back up my hard drive, being the cocky fool that I am. Partition is complete, I restart my computer... I'm restarting my computer... Restarting... The damn thing won't load! Blank screen. I panic. I delete hard drive to start a-fresh. Can't find XP cd. I grab ME, load Windows, hardware is outdated... computer won't load.
So 3 days later, after about 12 hours of manual labor, I connect to the internet for the first time in a long while.
Moral: The world sucks, life's a bitch, don't use partition magic, back up your hard drive.
//swear to bob
04:04 pm, Saturday, December 21, 2002 (6 years ago)
Partitioning your drive basically means your cuting your main drive up into smaller drives, for example, if you had a 20 gig Hard drive, you could partition that drive to 2 drives, one which is 10 gigs and another that is 10 gigs, most people do this to Install an OS on one and backup files on the other, or to install different OS'es on the different partitions.
ummm... when you want to split up your hard drive into bacically 2 new smaller hard drives, that's partitioning. with the 2 new hard drives, you can have 2 operating systems.
hmm... sounds odd... I've used PM quite alot of times without any probs... but hey it gotta fail at some time!! It really sucks that this happend to you! :/
This is strange...I heard this story many times....I used Partitioned drive with partition Magic over 500 times (working area) and I *NEVER* had this kind of problem.....
my friend who's parents i worked for had to partition their drives to keep their business organized... it kinda blew up in their face and were screwed after their computer just "chose" not to start back up after they finished
yeah, I guess you were unlucky. But it's pretty common knowledge to ALWAYS back-up anything that you can't live without...regardless if you're partitioning or not.
