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Title: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: ptek on July 08, 2006, 05:26:19 PM

Hello all,

I wonder if there is any program for winblows ou lunix for disk partitioning that takes into account any possible power failure during time consuming disk operations like expanding a disk partition and allows to (sucessful) recover from it.

I read the Partition Magic FAQ and even Norton stuff (sucks) and I didn't find any line about this subject...

The only program I read it does is System Commander but I had some problems with that (its main goal was to allow and manage a lot of installed OS on the PC... partitioning was a secondary subject)

Was do you know about know partition tools and power failure proof ?

I need to do repartition the hard disk and my PC is not a portable computer, so no batery backup is avaialble.

A UPS is out of question I guess. As far I know, UPS that can mantain for hours costs a lot (and i dont' pretend to buy any, just for disk operations)

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: adolescent on July 08, 2006, 05:58:02 PM

Partition Magic tends to be fairly safe for this type of operation (although, even without power problems it's a very dangerous act).  If you reboot during the operation you can continue on where you left off.  Just make sure you use their boot cd/floppy and that it works.

BTW, have you considered buying/borowing a second drive and transfering the data there?  

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: ptek on July 08, 2006, 06:05:29 PM

ok, i have partition magic but i wasn't sure it had that kind of protection.

Yes, tranferring data could be an option.

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: Homer on July 08, 2006, 08:42:05 PM

If you need to be 100% sure, then I would use Norton Ghost to image the drive first - either to another hard drive or CD/DVDs. Norton can then verify the image before you go any further. Any problems during the partitioning and you can then put the original image back on. Well worth the effort !!

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: ptek on July 08, 2006, 10:38:15 PM

@homer :

Yes, i know ghost but i'll need another HD since my disk is huge ...

BTW : nice avatar :)

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: Boot_WB on July 09, 2006, 10:09:42 AM

Rather than shell out on Norton Ghost, or any other commercial software - try these (http://gamma.nic.fi/~point/win2copy.htm) instructions for copying your existing system to a secondary hard drive.

Also - Do you really need all that data?  Is a lot of it music files/ISOs etc which would be better off on CD rather than clogging your hard drive?

Instructions are for W2k, but the same applies to XP.

Regards


Rich

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: ptek on July 09, 2006, 05:20:57 PM

The question is that it's not only data ... I have on my HD about 4 partitons and I was planning to add another, so I must resize one in order to convert its free space into a new partition, and btw move some of them.

I trusted partiton magic and all was been done now.

thanks

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: KThunder on July 09, 2006, 06:29:40 PM

why so many partitions? ive had three before when running dual boot but five? thats quite a few.

Title: Re: Partition operations and power failure problems
Post by: ptek on July 09, 2006, 06:46:16 PM

some of them are in FAT32