Not happy

[Posty]

I just had to tell someone this. I just tried to merge my 2 partitions back together with partition magic (which i have done many times before). Now, guess what. I try to load windows after it happens, it goes black screen and it reboots. I tried everything I could. So I plug in my hard drive to my second PC, it was empty except for a few files (in other words, I lost all my stuff). I lost my emulation stuff, all my gamesaves, my game installs, stuff for my site, and more. I lost all the pictures from x-mas that I took, and tons of stuff I wanted to keep. I'm back on, with one partition, and a huge ass list of stuff to re-download. I just got done with windows update and installing my antivirus so I don't get the blaster and such. So, I'm wondering, what the hell could have went wrong when Partition Magic tried merging the partitions. Also, has anyone else experienced things like this? It took me a while to get the computer up and running because I lost my XP disc at first, then things went wrong with the format, so I had to re-do it and etc. So, I'm back on, and I thought I'd just tell everyone why I might not be back on MTA for 2-3 days. Because I have tons of stuff to download again. Everything from Ad-Aware to Zbattle.Net. Now, once again, tell me, WTF COULD HAVE WENT WRONG, lol.

[Iggy]

Thats the reason that i've kept my seperate formatted-back-to-windows-ex-linux drive in its seperate partion, i dont want stuff like that to happen, you could prolly find some of the files with one of those recovery programs, good luck though.

[Robpol86]

i dont like merging partitions....... if i ever want to i would move all the stuff from partition two to partition one and then delete partition two and extend partition one. much less complicated for me.

also, be careful w/ partition magic. some poeple i know has had bad luck with it. and once, when i was resizing a partition, xp froze... (cuz of my gay raid that eventually killed my dual p3 mobo i was sad) and i lost a few gigs of data..........

thats y you should BACKUP! atleast the small files like pictures