{"id":464,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=464"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"run-scandisk-before-installing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Run\n ScanDisk before installing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Editor&#8217;s note: Scott Brawner&#8217;s experience here is extremely rare &#8212; I&#8217;ve only ever heard of two instances of this happening. In additon, note that the problems encountered are a result of some combination of Microsoft \/ PowerQuest technology, not Be&#8217;s.]<\/i><br \/>\nIf you use the included &#8222;lite&#8220; version of Partition Magic to create your BeOS partition, be sure to run ScanDisk before proceeding. I didn&#8217;t and the partitioning had to be aborted shortly into the process due to an excessive amount of lost clusters. I ended up with a 12MB partition. When using Partition Magic to delete this partiton and start over, it also wiped out two extended Windows partitions, putting the space back into the primary (C:) partition, thinking they were wasted space. One of the partitions was used for practially all of my data, which was lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor&#8217;s note: Scott Brawner&#8217;s experience here is extremely rare &#8212; I&#8217;ve only ever heard of two instances of this happening. In additon, note that the problems encountered are a result of some combination of Microsoft \/ PowerQuest technology, not Be&#8217;s.] If you use the included &#8222;lite&#8220; version of Partition Magic to create your BeOS partition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}