I officially hate Vista =_-

g0tanks · 7th Nov 2008, 11:31 PM

So I decided to do a clean Ubuntu install today, went into the disk manager in Vista to delete my old Ubuntu partition (of course I could have also done that in the Ubuntu installer, but I was already in Windows anyway. Selected the partition then clicked "Delete Partition", BOOM a dozen of error messages, then programs start closing one by one and Windows crashes. So what did just happen? Windows deleted ALL my partitions including itself

Unixlord · 8th Nov 2008, 12:07 AM

Manipulating windows partitions from Linux distros is fine, I do it all the time and it always works flawlessly.
Manipulating Linux partitions from windows and not just any windows but Vista?! That is something even I wouldn't do, even if someone told me it works fine.

Chai · 8th Nov 2008, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Unixlord

Manipulating windows partitions from Linux distros is fine, I do it all the time and it always works flawlessly.
Manipulating Linux partitions from windows and not just any windows but Vista?! That is something even I wouldn't do, even if someone told me it works fine.

I agree. I have tons of reasons to hate Vista, but I would never touch partition settings using Windows other than NTFS or FAT.

lee_what2004 · 8th Nov 2008, 01:56 AM

using partition program such as acronis, paragon on windows environment, this should be no problem, right?

g0tanks · 8th Nov 2008, 02:36 AM

I was using O&O Partition Manager but it didn't seem to recognize the Linux partition. I thought Windows would be able to handle a simple job like this but I guess not.

lee_what2004 · 8th Nov 2008, 02:39 AM

I guess it only on vista ?
xp not affected, right?

g0tanks · 8th Nov 2008, 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lee_what2004

I guess it only on vista ?
xp not affected, right?

Don't know for sure, but i'm not going to find out

I really have a lot of space left now xD

lee_what2004 · 8th Nov 2008, 02:46 AM

cause I used acronis to handle osx and linux partition, fortunately no accident happened

g0tanks · 8th Nov 2008, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by lee_what2004

cause I used acronis to handle osx and linux partition, fortunately no accident happened

I think any partition manager that supports ext3 will do the job fine.

Chai · 8th Nov 2008, 07:54 AM

You should be using Linux to manage the partition since it support wider range of file system...

I have tried deleted a JFS partition, but that HDD was a portable HDD without other partition in it.

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