steven1350
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I am just about finished cleaning up the mess which GParted has unleased upon my system. What I had wanted to do was to trim 2GB off my windows XP partition and convert it into free space (to later merge with the linux partition). Big Mistake.
However, not all went as planned. I used GParted because I was too lazy to boot into windows. Assuming GParted was equally reliable as partition magic, I went ahead with it. Now I had expected this small trim to take no more then an hour, but once it was finished, it took well over 4 Hours to finish partition.
During the partiton process, I noticed that one of its steps said "coping files". Immiaditly after reading this, I was positive that something had to go wrong with windows XP (since coping a whole OS and all its data (including bootable sectors) was way to risky.
Since the partition took so long to complete, I called it a day adn went to sleep. The next morning, I went to confirm that windows had taken a harsh blow, and sure enough, it did. Windows didnt even boot. So I went to my windows recovery, re-installed the bootable sectors (not the mbr), and windows came back to life. But all was not well in the world of windows, because my user profile had corrupted, and refused to load. After recovering my data from another user account, I remade my user account and seem to got it back to the way I liked it.
All of this trouble, becasue GParted had to take the longest, riskiest method of resizing partitions. Needless to say, I will never use that program again.
However, not all went as planned. I used GParted because I was too lazy to boot into windows. Assuming GParted was equally reliable as partition magic, I went ahead with it. Now I had expected this small trim to take no more then an hour, but once it was finished, it took well over 4 Hours to finish partition.
During the partiton process, I noticed that one of its steps said "coping files". Immiaditly after reading this, I was positive that something had to go wrong with windows XP (since coping a whole OS and all its data (including bootable sectors) was way to risky.
Since the partition took so long to complete, I called it a day adn went to sleep. The next morning, I went to confirm that windows had taken a harsh blow, and sure enough, it did. Windows didnt even boot. So I went to my windows recovery, re-installed the bootable sectors (not the mbr), and windows came back to life. But all was not well in the world of windows, because my user profile had corrupted, and refused to load. After recovering my data from another user account, I remade my user account and seem to got it back to the way I liked it.
All of this trouble, becasue GParted had to take the longest, riskiest method of resizing partitions. Needless to say, I will never use that program again.