My partition table got screwed up again thanks to Partition Magic 8! I should really learn to avoid this program in the future. Unfortunately it has worked so well in the past that I keep going to it. The problem is that it will get an error part-way through trying to resize/change partition information and when that happens I'm screwed. I boot back into Partition Magic and all it gives me is an error message. It can do nothing to repair it.

But all is not lost at this point. On every occasion that this has happened I have pulled out my Ultimate Boot CD and ran TestDisk. TestDisk is a partition recovery program that will show you deleted/invalid partitions and let you manually set what it should be. Since it's a manual process it has usually taken me a few tries to get it right but in the end I am the victor!

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