Symantic PartitionMagic v8.0 (1 User)
Crash helmet needed
I had used PartitionMagic 6.0 with no problem, now I needed 8.0 to be able to work with Linux ext3 partitions. So I reduced my XP partition, made some Linux partitions, installed Fedora Core 1, and rebooted. Now there is a Fedora bug, where XP won't boot, and sure enough I have the Fedora bug. So now I try and check my partition table. This is not what you should do, by the way! Fedora sets the number of heads incorrectly in the partition table, and apparently standard tools can't fix this. Which turned out to be the case! PartitionMagic said \\"There's a problem, should I fix it?\\" Yes, I said. Now the recovery partition crashes when I try and boot it. Run PartitionMagic again, now the whole partition table is corrupted, I can't see any partitions at all! My disk is now called \\"ERRxxx.\\" I can't delete partitions, create, nothing works. So I start over completely, wipe out my whole disk, reinstall Windows and Linux, fine, now I want to make some more partitions, but I can't! PartitionMagic says there's free space, but it gets an error making new partitions, no matter what I select. So I make the new partitions with Linux, and Partition Magic says its still free space! It's not, I used all the free space for the new partitions. <br /> <br />Sigh. I think more work needs to be done on this product, *especially* put in a way to make an undo disk, or a way to undo the last set of changes, after my first change to the partition table, I wanted to go back, but this was impossible. <br /> <br />I also booted the recovery disks, and there was just the same options as if I booted the CD, why make recovery disks? There is no restore option on them that I could find, either. <br /> <br />Partition programs should be reliable, and they should be able to work with partitions they created, and they should understand the partition table if Linux does, and they should be able to fix the table, if it's messed up. And I should be able to undo any changes!