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Originally posted by DXtremz
Last time I used partition Magic to split my NTFS drive into 2 parts, screwed up everything. Had to reinstall windows. =(
Don't want to be negative or anything, but the same happened to me:
I (think I) had to split a partition (it wasn't NTFS iirc, it was FAT32). When Partition Magic rebooted to finish the operation, the software crashed (after rebooting, but before entering into windows (xp)) and everything in the hard drive was lost
Luckily, a friend of mine had read about a (then freeware)
program which helped me recover some of the files lost (by searching the records in the hard drive, because I had to format it to make it work again).
So, I wouldn't really reccommend PM unless it's strictly necessary
Which it isn't.
Why do you need to format? Why not just delete the windows and program files folders (the root, docs and settings, etc.) from a DOS boot disk (or elsewhere since you have NTFS) and reinstall again?
I reinstall windows every once in a while and never format the HD, there's no use for that unless the hd is corrupted or something
It just makes things worse...
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