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To: PMS Witch who wrote (14865)	1/14/2001 12:46:37 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

FDISK is more dangerous than DELETE . Mistakes using FDISK are unforgiving. I prefer Partition Magic 6. _________________________ I remember a potential serious problem. Using 2 hard drives in my computer, the second HD (D:) holds all backup images and data from C: drive. Something when haywire when restoring and image (this bug has been fixed in new versions of Drive Image) I lost the C: partition when trying to restore an image. The computer said I just had C: drive, so I went to format this, and stopped when I noticed the drive was twice the size as my real C: drive. C: is 10GB and D: is 20GB I then did a DIR and noticed that was my back up hard drive, the computer was calling this C:, I almost formatted the HD losing all my data, as I was going to do a clean install of Windows, I forgot to create boot disks for Drive Image. (3.5 Floppies are hard to find at my place) Unplugged data cable and power for D: drive from the system, and proceeded to FDISK the original C: drive, then install Windows. Long story short, weird things can happen, and you can loose ALL your data, BE CAREFUL.