help! partition magic 8.0 hung

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:02:54 -0400, Con Shea <nospam.TakeThisOut@nodomain.com>
wrote:

 >I resized a partition on my hard drive by adding space from a deleted
 >partitition in front of it. PM hung before the process was completed.
 >I turned off the PC, but am afraid to boot up Windows XP due to the
 >unknown state of the partition.
 >
 >Is the partitition damaged? Anything I should do before booting up XP?

The partition may or may not be damaged.

In theory Partition Magic would protect the area worked on in a type
hex 3C Pqrp partition, which Windows XP should not attempt to access,
but you cannot be certain.

One way to verify is to get Findpart for DOS at

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm" target="_blank">http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm</a>

do from boot to a DOS floppy:

findpart all fp.txt

and let me evaluate the output file.
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