personally i use Partition Xpert 2k3 which has being updated and is included in Acronis Disk Director Suite it includes a bootable CD maker which loads before XP gets a chance to say your HDD is not well
BTW: i learnt the hard way not to use partition magic[ot]IMHO partition magic is :swear:ing crap, & i’m not the only 1 that doesn’t like partition magic[/ot]