whats the likeliness of me screwing up with diskdrake?

[SilentAssassin]

well its time for me to partition my hardrive again and just want to know if diskdrake is safe...(for the first time i partitioned my hardrive i used partition magic 6 everything went well until it told me to reboot. i rebooted the computer and all i got was "stage1" and a blinking cursor! me being nervous i used system restore(i have when me too)so i can set my computer back to and early date.the same thing happen! i installed linux back on then everything was okay.wtf! so does that mean i didn't have to use system restore and just had to install linux?

please respone...

[Shadoglare]

I've never had any problems with DiskDrake - as long as you know how partitioning works it should be OK -
I don't know anything about Partition Magic though - I'd almost just suggest getting rid of it and just using Lilo.

[FoBoT]

make sure you have a backup before messing with partitions, regardless of the program you are using

[mdwatts]

If you were redoing your HD completely, then you should have used a dos/win9x boot disk with fdisk and run fdisk /mbr to restore the mbr.

[LiNuts]

If you are doing a fresh install, then Diskdrake is the easiest and best of the partitioning programs available, If you are using Drake 7.2 then there are a couple of options open to you, you can let Diskdrake use any available space, or you can use the wizard and set your own partitions.
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LiNuts

Edit. If you have Windows installed DiskDrake will not touch your Windows partition, unless you tell it to.

[This message has been edited by LiNuts (edited 07 January 2001).]