[wellylug] laptop advice sought

Nick Jensen nickspoon at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 14:13:35 NZST 2005


On 7/22/05, Wayne Koorts wrote:
> 
> Whatever you do, try to use Windows-based partitioning software and
> preferably Partition Magic if you can. I have had a bad experience
> with a bug in the common Linux resizing software used in most distro's
> which will make your Windows drive unable to boot unless you
> re-format.


I don't agree with this. Partition Magic is expensive, and the only time 
I've used it it destroyed my Windows Partition. I've never had a problem 
with Linux partioning tools when resizing or creating partitions.

Nick
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