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| Thread ID: 39590 | 2003-11-11 07:43:00 | Do I need to partion my HDD | tedheath (537) | Press F1 |
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| 190929 | 2003-11-11 07:43:00 | I have a AMD1200 computer with Hard drive as follows: 8.14gb (goback space included) used and 29.1gb spare. I think the hdd was supposed to be 40gb but explorer says 37.2gb. I don't think the HDD will get any more stuff on it, in fact it will be less when I reformat it soon and napalm junk off it. The question I have please is do I need to partition the C drive? When I bought the hard drive from Henderson computers he said it was unnecessary to partition. Does it make it faster,stop bloo screens of death etc? I have looked thru the farqs for how to partition and will give it a try if you people can convince me of all the good reasons. (I am bound to stuff it up lol) :D cheers tedheath |
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| 190930 | 2003-11-11 07:56:00 | If you are happy with the size of the partitions on your hdd then you don't have to repartition your hdd to reinstall windows just format c: before reinstalling windows. | BootyLicious (526) | ||
| 190931 | 2003-11-11 07:59:00 | Umm the HDD is not partitioned at the moment it is just one giant C drive. tedheath |
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| 190932 | 2003-11-11 08:10:00 | the guy you bought the pc from was right, there's no real need to partition a single drive. | sanchez (3445) | ||
| 190933 | 2003-11-11 08:19:00 | the main reason is it makes things easier to keep things tidy and organised. it also makes maintaince a lot easier, defrag faster and you can format/reinstall windows without losing data on the other partitions. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 190934 | 2003-11-11 23:09:00 | Easiest way is to use Partition Magic 7 or 8 takes a while and always backup your essential data to cdr or another HDD before hand as there is a small possibility of data corruption for a 40 gig i would have at least 15 gigs as C: and the rest as a data hdd | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 190935 | 2003-11-11 23:12:00 | Partition magic is easy as to use too dont need to be very computer literate at all welcome to contact me if you or anyone else needs further help in this field | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 190936 | 2003-11-12 03:30:00 | Thanks for the replies where do I get partition magic? Is it free? or will some dos thing do? tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 190937 | 2003-11-12 03:39:00 | PartitionMagic is made by a company called PowerQuest. It costs $$$ to buy. Depending on your version of Windows, you may be able to use FDISK (a dos utility which is on windows), as long as you don't mind losing all the data on your hard disk. you'll need to reformat after that. Otherwise with WinXP, while you're installing you can choose to create multiple partitions at the start of the setup. |
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| 190938 | 2003-11-12 06:53:00 | > I think the hdd was supposed to be 40gb but explorer says 37.2gb. That would be because the hard drive manufacturers use a different measuring technique to everyone else. I think they measure the size in 1Megabyte = 1000Kilobytes or they might work it out by how many sectors and tracks on the disk. Windows measures it by the PC byte of 8bits, so 1Megabyte = 1024Kilobytes. Kinda misleading of them. ;) Partitioning has its uses, and mostly all reasons are useful. |
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