NTLDR is missing....

[doug541]

Greets, I too used CampTune to enlarge my Windows XP partition on my Mac Intel Mini, and the changes to Leopard 10.5.5 OS X worked fine. When I tried to open Windows, I get the above message. Does this mean I have to reinstall WinXP from scratch or ? thanxs.

[markf]

I tried to reduce the size of my bootcamp drive using CampTune, and it made an absolute hash of it! It displays 'NTLDR is missing', and when I boot into OSX, the Bootcamp drive is full of files in some unreadable language. I am also running 10.5.5

In short, CampTune is a piece of crap, don't use it

[wjs]

Same problem here. Used Camptune to change from a 15GB partition to 32GB. Reboot. NTLDR is missing.

Any help, Paragon?

[wjs]

As an update, CampTune completely trashed my partition. It wasn't just an NTLDR problem. It's just screwed. Thankfully, I have everything backed up.

I'll reiterate what was said above. Stay AWAY from CampTune. Do not use this potentially dangerous product.

[mkb]

I tried to expand my FAT32 Bootcamp partition from 16G to 32G, and had the same unfortunate results: the partition was expanded to the correct size, but all the files were hashed.

Leopard 10.5.5, Intel Core Duo, 250G drive with 140G free space, 2G RAM.

CampTunes ran for ~45 minutes, didn't report any errors during the process.

Maybe it only works with NTFS partitions (but I don't see any indication of that)?

Fortunately I made a backup image with WinClone before hand (great utility!).

[harmonp]

I tried to use Camp Tune to resize a FAT32 Boot Camp partition and everything seemed to go ok until I tried to use the Windows partition when I received the NTLDR is missing error message. I attempted to find a fix, but nothing Microsoft knowledgebase suggested would do the job. I ended up removing the Boot Camp partition and starting over. This is a much needed product, so I hope this bug and any others can be fixed. It would be very helpful to be able to resize the Boot Camp partition as needed.

[fn_POS]

what a piece of shit.


Do NOT USE!!!

[Paragon Support Team]

Hello,

we know about it. Camp Tune works with FAT32 partitions very bad and usually corrupts it. Now we've released new Partition Manager 10 and Camp Tune is the part of it. This is stable and safe product which has full support of GPT disks.

[PattyCake]

Hi Paragon Support Team,
I realize that those of us recovering from the havoc wreaked by camptune are SOL with the beta agreement but if you know about the problem and have a fix for it in one of your other packages, you should release it to the us to at least repair the damage. I ended up losing everything and doing a new install MINUS the 10GB of disk space that camptunes disappeared when I tried it out.

We beta because would actually buy your products but not even microsoft customer service is this bad. I was thrilled to see the awesome utilities you're developing but there's no way I would buy or recommend new products from a company that walks away from screwed beta testers.
In the mean time, I'm searching for a solution from your competitors. If anyone has a fix that does not involve buying a paragon product, please drop me a line.

[Mark Lev]

Originally Posted by Paragon Support Team

Hello,

we know about it. Camp Tune works with FAT32 partitions very bad and usually corrupts it. Now we've released new Partition Manager 10 and Camp Tune is the part of it. This is stable and safe product which has full support of GPT disks.

WHAT!
I just downloaded the free version. The software does ONE thing. Resize bootcamp partitions. It just toasted a FAT32 partition.
Just how lazy are your programmers?
EG: Check if partition = fat32?
Dialog box (Abort / Convert to NTFS)

Note: My wallet, and any clients wallet is going to stay in there pocket for any product from this company.