I was experimenting with dual-booting so I clicked “install another operating system” in PartitionMagic. At the time I had no idea what it would do to my computer. A few minutes later I found out that I would no longer be able to boot to Windows — that was a problem.

The first thing that I thought to do was install Windows on the new partition and just move all my old files. That didn’t work either. When I got into Windows I realized that I couldn’t see the C: drive. When I went to the disk utility I could see it, but all I could do was delete the partition. After searching google I found out that it was because the partition was “hidden”. With the help of PartitionMagic I unhid and activated the partition and we’re back on track.

That was a close one. PartitionMagic and Google saved the day!

Tags: partition, HDD, windows, dual-boot, PartitionMagic