Partition Magic takes a LOOOOOOOONG time to scan.
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:52 pm
Perviously, I had used and enjoyed UBCD version 5.1.1 and specifically the copy of Partition magic (is that the same as GParted?) contained thereon.
Last nite I downloaded and burned to a fresh CD the latest UBCD version 5.2.7 and now I'm trying to use the Partition Magic on that.
I have a reasonably ordinary (although dated) system... Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G motherboard, AMD 1640B 2.6GHz CPU and just -one_ lonely old EIDE harddrive... a Seagate 80GB EIDE (ST380011A).
Well, OK, so I fired up Partition magic off the CD and then started up the partition editor.
It proceeded to do its customary "scanning for devices". Humm... well... I just looked over at that other system again and it FINALLY finished. However it ran for a LOOOOONG time... so long in fact that in the interm, I created an account here on these fora, and was preparing to report (as a bug) the fact that it was utterly choking. Apparently, that is NOT the case, but why is it now taking what appears to be sooooo much longer than it did before, just to scan the system for attached drives?
P.S. Yes, yes. I know. This obviously would not be the Right Place to report a bug in Partition Magic, even if there is/was one, but I figured that I could/should at least start here, find out what version of Partition Magic is on/in the UBCD 5.2.7 release ISO, and then I could go and find the proper place to report PM bugs.
Last nite I downloaded and burned to a fresh CD the latest UBCD version 5.2.7 and now I'm trying to use the Partition Magic on that.
I have a reasonably ordinary (although dated) system... Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G motherboard, AMD 1640B 2.6GHz CPU and just -one_ lonely old EIDE harddrive... a Seagate 80GB EIDE (ST380011A).
Well, OK, so I fired up Partition magic off the CD and then started up the partition editor.
It proceeded to do its customary "scanning for devices". Humm... well... I just looked over at that other system again and it FINALLY finished. However it ran for a LOOOOONG time... so long in fact that in the interm, I created an account here on these fora, and was preparing to report (as a bug) the fact that it was utterly choking. Apparently, that is NOT the case, but why is it now taking what appears to be sooooo much longer than it did before, just to scan the system for attached drives?
P.S. Yes, yes. I know. This obviously would not be the Right Place to report a bug in Partition Magic, even if there is/was one, but I figured that I could/should at least start here, find out what version of Partition Magic is on/in the UBCD 5.2.7 release ISO, and then I could go and find the proper place to report PM bugs.