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| Thread ID: 47650 | 2004-08-01 23:53:00 | Deleting partition on HDD | Taly (4598) | Press F1 |
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| 257337 | 2004-08-03 10:05:00 | > You are not wrong in my opinion. Some people here > just say use "PM" and don't even mention you have to > buy it. I use a paid copy as from time to time I > would like to resize a partition without losing data. > It's worth the money for me. Resizing a partition full of data with confidence is like money in the bank for me. |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 257338 | 2004-08-03 10:46:00 | > This thread wasn't started to debate the pro & cons > of Partition Magic. I was only endorsing my approval > of a previous post. That is fair enough. I note that Taly who asked the original question has not reposted during this entire thread. Presumably He/She has sorted the problem using Fdisk or Knoppix or Partition Magic or some other utility. The "He/She" to be politically correct. Who would know? If I was ever to ask a question in this forum for help I would hope that I could post back with what cured it. Only once did I ask for help and it wasn't forthcoming here at that time. I managed to sort it for myself eventually and therefore didn't have to post a thankyou note. I would hope that Taly has the problem sorted. All this is easy for me that keeps backups of important data that can't be re-created. If you want to resize partitions and care about losing data then the best methods may be to use CD or DVD disks to backup and then use FDisk or whatever depending on the O/S to remove all partitions and reinstall everything from scratch. You do have the disks that came with your computer don't you? Keep good backups one way or another and just boot off a CD and reinstall all hardware and software. Just today I installed a new hard drive into a computer. (40 Gig) and wanted to partition and format during the install. Booted off the Win XP home CD supplied and with new unpartitioned and unformatted drive installed the O/S. Noted that I only had the option of installing on the new drive. After install found that there were 8 megs at the end of the drive unallocated. Now I couild have booted from a Win98 boot disk and used FDisk and created partitions to suit the customer before I loaded the O/S. I used my copy of Partition Magic to resize the C: drive and created a new E: drive. Can't use D: as that was the CDRom drive. Resized the C: drive to 30 Gig and created new drive on the rest. About 8 Gig remaining for the new drive. No unallocated space now on the new drive. Back in to the O/S and changed drive letters. One hard disk containing two drives... C and D. 30 Gig and 8 Gig roughly. Changed drive letters to C was C, E was changed to D and D became R. After this removed my copy of PM and installed the rest of the software. As soon as I repartitioned my copy of PM was removed and the customer can't use it. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 257339 | 2004-08-03 12:18:00 | > I used my copy of Partition Magic to resize the C: > drive and created a new E: drive. Can't use D: as > that was the CDRom drive. Resized the C: drive to 30 > Gig and created new drive on the rest. About 8 Gig > remaining for the new drive. No unallocated space now > on the new drive. Back in to the O/S and changed > drive letters. One hard disk containing two > drives... > C and D. 30 Gig and 8 Gig roughly. Changed drive > letters to C was C, E was changed to D and D became > R. After this removed my copy of PM and installed the > rest of the software. > > As soon as I repartitioned my copy of PM was removed > and the customer can't use it. > > > > > Just as a matter of interest could you have done all this with Fdisk. ? I take your point about backup. My house has 3 networked computers and all important stuff is doubled up on other harddrives. I would have to lose 2 computers at the same time to lose any data |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 257340 | 2004-08-03 14:01:00 | > > and the customer can't use it. > > > Just as a matter of interest could you have done all > this with Fdisk. ? Yes I could have. Possibly even I should have. The computer I was presented with had a CDRom drive, a floppy drive and no hard drive. Bought new 40 gig hard drive and installed it. BIOS recognised it along with the Floppy and CD Rom drive. So I could have changed the BIOS to oot off floppy first and inserted a Win98SE boot disk. Please note that one of those was not supplied to me from the person. From there I could have used FDISK to partition the Hard drive. After rebooting I could have used format.com to format both partitions. So now change the BIOS to boot off the CDRom supplied and install the O/S on the first partition. My main point was that I wanted to partition a new drive during the install. The WinXP home install as supplied did not give me the option. So my mistake. Next time I will know better. > I take your point about backup. My house has 3 > networked computers and all important stuff is > doubled up on other harddrives. I would have to lose > 2 computers at the same time to lose any data So just a small point here. Do you have Off site backup ? What happens if you leave the house and the whole house burns down while you are working ? What happens if you happen to leave the house and someone else comes in and removes all the computers ? Why do you think I have a removable hard drive ? I also have a CDWriter and DVD writer. CDs with backup are stored elsewhere than this home. The removable hard drive is stored in a differant place to where the CDs are at. I have not yet got around to storing DVDs off site yet but this is only a matter of time. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 257341 | 2004-08-03 23:52:00 | >Just as a matter of interest could you have done all this with Fdisk. ? not sure with fdisk but i have done the same useing randish, all off a floopy requireing nothing to be installed on the pc. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 257342 | 2004-08-04 01:04:00 | > My main point was that I wanted to partition a new drive during the install. The WinXP home install as supplied did not give me the option. Why is that, Elephant? Was the WinXP a restore disc or similar rather than a "normal" WinXP disc? I am able to partition and format a new hard drive using my OEM WinXP disc. No need for FDISK or other tool. > not sure with fdisk but i have done the same useing randish, all off a floopy requireing nothing to be installed on the pc. In case others are interested in going looking for it, tweak'e is referring to Ranish partition manager. Have you recently changed brands for your coffee or beer, tweak'e? I have never seen your spelling as creative as it has been in the past few days. :p :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 257343 | 2005-01-10 17:16:00 | Hi there everyone! It is Taly! Sorry for not responding. Accept all critics. The problem with partitions was solved by using Fdisk. |
taly (5956) | ||
| 257344 | 2005-01-10 21:37:00 | Hi there everyone! It is Taly! Sorry for not responding. Accept all critics. The problem with partitions was solved by using Fdisk. Wow! Not only must Mary have fixed the email notifications but she put them on turbo charge as well. I'm impressed! :p :D |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
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