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| Thread ID: 43185 | 2004-03-06 05:06:00 | Partitioning without data loss? | mejobloggs (264) | Press F1 |
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| 220496 | 2004-03-08 06:45:00 | I checked when I got home and Paragon Partition Manager 2002 was on APC January 2004 - full version. Perhaps you can back order it from your news agent. | POTUS (5276) | ||
| 220497 | 2004-03-08 08:43:00 | Paragon Partition Manager 2002 works fine with NTFS & Win2k but not XP (or at least I couldn't get it to work in XP - works in GUI for 2k but command prompt for XP - followed the instructions but no luck). Which OS are you dealing with? | JohnD (509) | ||
| 220498 | 2004-03-08 09:06:00 | XP Pro :-) Managed to backup too now. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 220499 | 2004-03-08 09:12:00 | Paragon partiotion manager is still too much. If I was going to spend that much money, I would rather go for PM8 | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 220500 | 2004-03-08 09:15:00 | It costs thr price of a magazine - how is that too much? | POTUS (5276) | ||
| 220501 | 2004-03-08 09:25:00 | Apparantly, that version will not work with XP, so I will have to buy the latest one. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 220502 | 2004-03-08 09:38:00 | It creates a bootable floppy which works fine on XP for me. | POTUS (5276) | ||
| 220503 | 2004-03-08 09:43:00 | Well having read all the posts below this I still don't know if you want two partitions or only one. I think you have one NTFS partition at the moment and run WinXP as the O/s or maybe one Fat32 partition. If you have one Fat32 partition at the moment and want to change this to NTFS without losing data then you can convert the current Fat32 to NTFS using the convert command in WinXP. If you have all the data you want to save backed up on CDRom or wherever then why not boot off the WinXP CD and repartition? If you have one NTFS partition at the moment and want to add another partition then Ranish will work. For me I use Partition Magic version 8 but had the whole hard drive scrambled just once while I was resizing a partition. Fortunately I have two 120 Gig hard drives and copy one to the other on about a weekly basis using Norton Ghost. Just remember there is nothing like a good well tested backup before playing with re-partitioning a drive. I use Fat32 partitions on each of my two drives. The reason is that I can access all partitions using a win98 boot disk in case WinXP dies. I also have a specialised CDRom boot disk with quite a few tools on it. I don't need the extra security an NTFS partition would give me. I'm the first to admit that the NTFS file system gives you some advantages the FAT32 won't. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 220504 | 2004-03-09 05:49:00 | Sorry. I have one big FAT32 partition with XP Pro on. I am wanting to partition, so I can have linux on too, and maybe another partition for other stuff. I have backed up, but I don't know how good I have backed up. I have never done this before, so I do not know what to back up. I have backed up my important data from the folders, but do I need to back up the actual settings of windows, and setting of programs? I would prefer to keep everything there, but I am trying to do a full backup, just in case somthing dies. I am just waiting for XP SP2 to come out, then I will go for it. Is that paragan partition program better that the free ones? And if I boot from the floppy, will it still partition without data loss? |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 220505 | 2004-03-09 06:18:00 | I don't know how you would determine "better". I tried Ranish and found it better suited to an expert, Paragon if fairly graphical and re-partioned for me without data loss. The mag costs about $10 and for that you get the commercial offering... and TweakXP Pro 2 full version too! I'd say that's a good deal. | POTUS (5276) | ||
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