omg what to do??

CyberGhost

I used partition magic 8 with my 200 gig drive, which i had cut into partitions, and suddenly i deleted, the other partitions and i'm stuck with 130 gig partition, and what's the only partition i see! all others dissapeared! it's like drive became 130 gig!

savemejebus

silly question but did you make a rescue diskette?

CyberGhost

eeeeeeer.... No!

CyberGhost

k, never mind fixed it!

pheew! that was a panic call!

savemejebus

glad you sorted it, happened me before so now i always make a rescue diskette and wouldn't you bleeding know it - no further problems, typical, oops end of rant

Caliden

do i have to buy partition magic 8 as i cant find any links to it for free?
or alternative, does nay1 know of any free partitioning software?

Duffman

Mandrake Linux install CD has a handy bootable partition program..

CyberGhost

savemejebus, heheh, I learned my lesson! from now on I will be making boot disks too

Caliden - *cough*emule*cough*

M@lice

I've heard of a linux dis called knoppix. Its an os that boots from a cd. Its open source and has a partition prog on it thats similar to partition magic, cept its free! also since it boots from a cd there's no need to install the os on the hd if u don't want so you don't have to alter your computer at all! You gotta love linux!

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

CyberGhost

get yourself Hiren's BootCD

Caliden

took me a while to find hirens boot cd but i got it in ~25minutes

leeroybrown

UltimateBootCD (~50Mb) is another useful and somewhat easer to find alternative. It includes a wide variety of useful tools and the homepage has links to all the tools included should you fancy a smaller download of a specific item.