Software warnings

[PorPorMe]

I pay little or no attention to warnings anymore. I've grown numb to them. Everything has a warning of some sort & if I pay heed to them I couldn't get anything done.
None of the calamities ever happen anyway, why bother.

Partition Magic 8.0 has a warning that needs listening to.
I had XP running on the Plll 733 rig and thought I'd dual boot Ubuntu. Instead of being smart and letting Ubuntu handle it, I thought I'd partition the drive with PM 8 with it's install new OS function. Warning -it states that if you don't install a new OS your system could become unstable.
It means it!I've spent the whole morning swapping out components, HDD, Memory, Vid card, to narrow down the culprit involved. I think it's memory but I haven't tested yet. I couldn't even get the Rescue disks to load at boot, no cd drivers would load. New memory sticks "seem" to have done the trick as I just got Xp installed again. With a caveat, there was a garbled boot screen.
I'll pay just a little more attention next time.

[ccperf721p]

How did you manage to kill your memory resizing a partition? Either you are having some very bad luck over the past 30 days or you are sliding around the carpet in your socks before working on your rig..

[PorPorMe]

Originally Posted by ccperf721p

How did you manage to kill your memory resizing a partition? Either you are having some very bad luck over the past 30 days or you are sliding around the carpet in your socks before working on your rig..

I don't know that I killed it yet. Don't think I did, but installing different memory is what did the trick. Why? Don't know. Why wouldn't the CD drivers load from boot CD's? don't know. I got blue screens (memory dumps) Formating a totally different HDD. Don't know that one either.
I'll put that mem into another rig and run memtest on it and let ya know, but like you, I don't see a program ruining it. Then agian, new sticks and a clean install of xp, back up & folding again.
Sometimes even dummies get lucky!

[ccperf721p]

Did you leave some room for buntu?

[Áedán]

PM8 wouldn't physically kill components. What it could do is trash parts of the hard disk (I've had PM of some previous version unlink partitions), meaning you'd have to reinstall OSes and software.

[PorPorMe]

Originally Posted by Áedán

PM8 wouldn't physically kill components. What it could do is trash parts of the hard disk (I've had PM of some previous version unlink partitions), meaning you'd have to reinstall OSes and software.

I'm running memtest now but it's going to come out clean, I believe. I let it load XP all the way through with out a hiccup. AND the CD drivers were able to install at boot. I'll probly have to take the original HDD back to (I forget what they call it) back to zero. Be for the best any way-that way I know everything is back up to spec and I don't have to worry about it.

Yes there is room for ubuntu. Thats what started this snowball in the first place. I decided not to install it yet, on that machine untill I had the kinks worked out of Ubuntu on the other rig! So far, I haven't been able to touch it or my case mod or anything else!

[MUff1N]

I used to use Partition Magic but found that Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 worked 10 times better. Very easy to use and very hard to screw anything up...

[PorPorMe]

As you can probly guess, I'm not all that happy with PM8=even though it is my fault. It did try to warn me, after all.

[ccperf721p]

gparted does the job for me, clean, efficient and under the GPL..

GParted -- Welcome

[cloasters]

Gnu Public License, is there a sweeter phrase?

[PorPorMe]

Originally Posted by ccperf721p

gparted does the job for me, clean, efficient and under the GPL..

GParted -- Welcome

I've got GParted, and truth be told, I forgot I had it until it was brought up here!
What I've also got, and will use here, is the Western Digital Diagnostic & Install programs. I'm going to zero this HDD down to nothing & then the WD install will bring it back up again.
I did this to a Maxtor drive 10-12 yrs ago, don't remember why, curiosity most likely. It was nerve racking-like the first time flashing the BIOS. The program will instruct, like flash tools, there is no going back. The drive is going to be completely inert. Won't bother me now-sure did then!
I'll know the drive is 100% or not, without any doubts.

[Daniel ~]

Good luck in the passage!