Microsoft to blame for overlapping my HD partitions!

[KevinGPO]

I got a problem and it's all Microsoft fault!

Here was my partition table:

C: FAT32 5GB
D: EXT3/linux 5GB (+ 512MB swap)
E: NTFS 50GB
F: NTFS 50GB

I wanted more space so I used Windows XP Disk Management tool to delete D:
EXT3/linux parition and also my swap partition. Then I used the same tool to
create a NTFS partition and 2 weird things happened:

a) my HD capacity doubled from 120GB to 210GB... :S
b) the new D: partition created sized at 55GB (when it should've been 5GB
max.)

Results?

Well, I wasn't fully awake at the time and started using my new 55GB
partition; moving around files/MP3s, etc. I started noticing my E: files
(.jpgs, .exes, .zips, .rars) gradually being corrupted. It wasn't now that I
realised that stupid WindowsXP has overlapped my D: with E: !!! so E: files
were being overwritten... MP3s getting garbled, JPGs being incomplete, etc.
What a mess!

I hate Microsoft. Why can't they for once start being compatible with
linux?!

 

[Guest]

You deleted the wrong OS.

 

[Admiral Q]

You should have used the same software to delete the EXT3 partition as you
did to create it - MS Disk Management is/was not designed to work with
"Linux" partitions - that was "your" goof, not Microsoft's - I believe "Disk
Druid" is what was called for, or a 3rd party such as Partition Magic.

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