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TheDeceiver
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 Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject: Help! Reformatting hard drive! |
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Hey guys!
Im thinking of reformatting my one and only drive C ... thats only drive I have sadly, its 120GB and im wondering hwo to partition it? Like have a partition for the OS (for future reformats) and one for games and anime (so dont need to lose these)? Some of my friends recommend like having two partitions... 1 of 10GB for OS and the rest for games and things. Whats sad.. if i reformat.. gotta burn all of my anime series on DVd now ;o so many unfinished scraps of series
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Yebyosh
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: |
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If you have lots of disk space at the moment, you can set up a partitiion on your drive without backing up and, re-partitioning and re-formatting your hard drive.
You would have to find one of those 3rd party partitioning software and learn to use them though. |
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LiangZzZ
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| try partition magic by norton |
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TheDeceiver
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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well I have norton partitiuon magic... ive got about 40GB of space left... so i can partition wiht this? because i wanna make one partition for OS and one for games/anime. So if ive gotta reformat just need ot reformat OS partition and wont need ot lose games and anime.
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LiangZzZ
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| you have to reformat if you want to partition your hard drive. unless you have partitioned already, then you can have a choice of reformatting any one of your partitions |
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Yebyosh
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:08 am Post subject: |
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Not quite...
If you get Partition Magic 7.0, you can add a new partition to your hard drive without re-formating. What it does is it uses the spare space ( 40 GB in your case ) as the temporary buffer to sort through your data and store them in one continguous sector. Then after that, you can set up a new partition with a continguous 40GB, all done in your OS.
Long story short, Partition Magic can allow you to set up a new partition without getting out of the OS ( except to reboot when completed ) and without reformatting, provided you have disc space to spare ( which in your case, you have ).
Some information on Partition Magic 7.0 |
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Jsy3k
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Well, you can partition it, but one main problem. You have to know which folder is for the windows system files. If you have mixed up all the folders, then I suggest burning off the data first before formatting with Windows XP and partition it. If not, maybe buy an additional hdd for backup and format your drive.
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DarkAeons
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| Yebyosh wrote: |
Not quite...
If you get Partition Magic 7.0, you can add a new partition to your hard drive without re-formating. What it does is it uses the spare space ( 40 GB in your case ) as the temporary buffer to sort through your data and store them in one continguous sector. Then after that, you can set up a new partition with a continguous 40GB, all done in your OS.
Long story short, Partition Magic can allow you to set up a new partition without getting out of the OS ( except to reboot when completed ) and without reformatting, provided you have disc space to spare ( which in your case, you have ).
Some information on Partition Magic 7.0 |
this is going to be really long... (might last at least one night)
if you plan to format totally your hard drive (you don't want to keep anything on it) I suggest you get Partition Magic, delete all your partition, create a new primary partition of about 20Gb (you never know what could happen so 20Gb is plenty of good space) & then create an extended partition with the space left on the drive, click apply
but if you wanna keep your data, you should do as yebyosh says, resize your partition with partition magic but it'll be long because partition magic have to move all the data inside the limit of the new partition (it may be shorter if your drive is defragmented), create a new extended partition of 10Gb & create another extended partition with the space left, click apply |
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DaChi-
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| interesting stuff.. |
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