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| Thread ID: 42154 | 2004-02-02 07:04:00 | HDD Partitioning | csinclair83 (200) | Press F1 |
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| 212304 | 2004-02-02 07:04:00 | Hey How can i partition a 30gig hdd into a 20gig and a 10gig..as i wanna put xp pro onto the 10gig with my xphme staying on my 20gig... but i dont wanna reformat my hdd... how do i do this the easy way? cheers |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 212305 | 2004-02-02 07:15:00 | Um Im n00b can this but... this months APC Australian mag is out and it has full Paragon Partition Manager 2002 if you hace Windows XP you have to use dos mod but if your 95, 98, Me your all good. |
Gods-Hitman (1419) | ||
| 212306 | 2004-02-02 07:16:00 | *mode* | Gods-Hitman (1419) | ||
| 212307 | 2004-02-02 07:37:00 | Partition magic demo maybe? | Growly (6) | ||
| 212308 | 2004-02-02 07:41:00 | I tried the Paragon Partition Manager firstly from the GUI with Win2k and it worked fine. I then tried with XP following the instructions carefully (can only work from the command prompt with this version) but could not get it even as far as looking at the existing partitions. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 212309 | 2004-02-02 07:42:00 | Partition magic demo dosn't actually do anything. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 212310 | 2004-02-02 07:45:00 | oh ok seems like demos wont work... what should i actually use? |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 212311 | 2004-02-02 08:12:00 | Partition Magic is the stuff, get that. You may have to defrag the computer first, then chop 10gb off the end of the XP home partition. Then install XP pro onto the 10gb. Hopefully after that you will be able to select which of the two OS's you want to boot into. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 212312 | 2004-02-02 08:16:00 | Well I read you post VERY carefully. As I work it out you want to dual boot WinXP Home which is currently on a 30 Gig drive with WinXP Pro and you have one 30 Gig drive. The 30 Gig drive is currently ONE PARTITION and it holds WinXP Home??? I take it that you want to divide your 30 Gig HD into 20 Gig and 10 Gig without losing any data. Sorry to ask but I want to be sure what you want to do. You may consider a partition manager such as Partition Magic but it may be better to install another Hard drive as a slave and install WinXP Pro on the new drive. Why you would want WinXP Home and Pro on the same machine is beyond me. Why do you not consider just upgrading your Win XP HOME with the Win XP Pro? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 212313 | 2004-02-02 08:50:00 | yes its only 1 partition but i beleive theres a hidden partition with the system files on it...for recovery purposes i think... and yes i want to partition into a 20gig (including hidden) and a 10gig... well i only want to do it to gain access to IIS...so i can build my website...as after i've built my website i'm going to remove Winxp pro and use that as a "storage" partition... and i'm using a laptop so a extra hdd isnt that easy to do... |
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