Partition Question

[Deleted member 169154]

On one of my hard drives I have two partitions. I want to reformat just one of them.

Is there a chance of corruption on the other partition if I reformat one of them? Just trying to make sure there isn't a decent chance of this.

 

[Lateralus]

I've never had it happen. You will be fine.

 

[Syntax Error]

User error is the thing to watch out for when you're doing this in Windows setup.

 

[Deleted member 169154]

I use GParted.

 

[zandor]

Aside from PEBKAC errors, that just doesn't happen. In theory it could, but the chances of it happening without a PEBKAC error are about as high as some random malfunction overwriting your partition table while you're recording the latest episode of Days of Our Lives.

 

[Deleted member 169154]

I used GParted from Ubuntu live CD, and then when I was reinstalling Vista I used the disk manager and deleted the partition and reformatted there also.

I assume everything is still intact since I can still access the files (at least the few I have tried to access...gonna assume if I can access some nothing bad happened).