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partitioning-with acronis partition expe

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by europanorama

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i was using acronis partition expert when my winme was already installed on a 40gb hdd.
everything was ok until i used norton system works discdoctor. it detected an error and changed partition table. third partition was gone and some programs(not yet installed) and access was denied to some softwar on desktop.
i use nsworks because it helped me much and i do not know yet a better alternative. but acronis partition expert cannot exist with nsworks. total chaos broke out. i have now used ontrack diskmanager and reinstalled windows, now win2k.
see my next question about converting fat 32 to ntfs.

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by cg it

Acronis partition sofware is not an installable program in a Windows O/S environment nor should it be used from a command prompt while Windows is running. Acronis partition software is designed to be "booted to" either from the Acronis CD or floppy disks. Once booted up from the CD or floppy, Acronis then can access and partition the HDD(s) that need it. When you run the partitioning software while Windows is running, you cause untold orphaned files, crosslinked files, and lost chains not to mention changes in the file allocation table which Norton will repair. Those repairs remove all the partitioning you've done with Acronis while Windows was running, delete or archive orphaned files, recover lost chains [esentially undoing all the partitioning and software installations you've done] and return the hard drive to a state prior to running Acronis.

by europanorama

i f this is true, i ask myself why it is running withing windows. and why the most important button(commit) is not in the menue at left side, only as a sign on the top bar. this is poor design.
also there is no easy explanation what to do when 2 ormore partitions(beside the first)have to be joined into one single. (i know now by trying out: make unallocated space first).
i would like to have informations in the program how to make boot-disk. or an information that it is better running under dos.

by europanorama

maybe, but in my case, one partition was no more accessible. if you are right, norton discdoctor could repair my fault using acronis partition expert. but i have used it outside windows. maybe one day all is clear. what i do not understand is, why acronis does not integrated a stopper, to prevent users to start within windows.

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