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| Thread ID: 21777 | 2002-07-03 22:28:00 | repartitioning | Theo Brandt (835) | Press F1 |
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| 59555 | 2002-07-03 22:28:00 | I had XP home installed on my new computer with FAT 32 formatting. Hard drive is a 40 GB, with two partitions 2 GB and 38 GB. Idea being to keep OS and antivirus on the 2 GB(C:), everything else on the 38 GB(D:) partition. Thing is 2 GB just isn't enough. Installing MS Office in D:\ was fine, but so much stuff gets sneaked onto the C:\ that it exists with only 140mb free board. Ideally I want to: reformat the whole thing in NFTS with more appropriate partitions. say 4 GB and 36 GB. save user files to a cd-r that mean after re formatting and installing I can get back to where I am now a little easier. I have Norton Ghost, can this somehow help? I am trying to avoid buying Partition Magic... thanks for any thoughts |
Theo Brandt (835) | ||
| 59556 | 2002-07-03 23:41:00 | i'm surprised that XP let you install it on a 2 gig drive. need at least 5 gig. i would also put office on to c: due to it intergrateing so much into the os so much. has XP got a fdisk like prog on the disk? otherwise use a boot disk and fdisk to partion the drive.(or ranish). note- use XP to format the drive. just make sure you have made backups before doing anything. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 59557 | 2002-07-04 04:39:00 | If you want to repartition your drive without losing any data, then you're gonna have to get partition magic . Fdisk will do the job but you'll lose everything in the drive . As for c:\, anything from 4 gig and above will do fine, but you could tweak your xp a little bit . My xp pro is roughly about 1 . 4 gig, it's got xp, office, and about 40 other programs installed . Here's what I did - Fresh installed xp pro, this should be around 1 gig including hibernate system file, page file and some xp system files . I delete disabled hibernation, moved page file onto another partition, then deleted everything in (C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386), (C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache) . After all this, windows folder should be about 650-670mb big which is very small compare to 1 gig . It is quite save to delete the files in driver cache, and dllcache, hence "cache" . But it's a personal thing, you might wanna keep them . What you should do is, install xp then assign page file into d:\ (recommended) then make an image of your c:\ with norton ghost . Oh one other thing, If you are on NTFS, you won't be able to work in real-mode DOS . maybe you know this already . |
boom23 (176) | ||
| 59558 | 2002-07-04 05:15:00 | The advice is good: let me add one more piece: Make your backup . Then, since you should have lots of room in your 38GB partition, read your backup into that . A backup isn't a backup until you have actually tested it by reading it . If you won't be making a habit of partitioning, why buy expensive software? ranish is free (www . users . intercom . com/~ranish/), and seems to be good . FDISK will do it, since you can copy the stuff back from your CD backup . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 59559 | 2002-07-04 05:29:00 | I believe ranish uses "Xcopy" as a tool for backup Graham? I don't think Xcopy will work with winNT, win2k, Winxp because their kernel is different from Win9x and WinME. Xcopy sometimes can be unreliable as well. The files won't be compressed which means you'll be having a lot of files everything and they'll be big. Ghosting drives are pretty easy and reliable. Once the image is made, you can test it straight away. |
boom23 (176) | ||
| 59560 | 2002-07-05 00:59:00 | Thanks to everyone for the response so far. I guess what I need to find out more about is the image that ghost makes. is it a replication of the partition but lots smaller?- any links or readmes that people could recommend? thanks |
Theo Brandt (835) | ||
| 59561 | 2002-07-05 01:09:00 | yep do a partition to image dump in ghost, u can make ghost boot disks etc if you have a cdwriter you can do the bacvkup immage to your 2nd local drive and then write to cd, use a standard win98 bootdisk to enable cdrom on boot and put the ghost.exe or ghostpe.exe depending on whether its personal or corporate edition, we automate the process and it works great if you need more detailed instructions let me know Plaladin |
mutts (790) | ||
| 59562 | 2002-07-05 01:12:00 | p.s when you image it back it will still bet f32, run the converter to make it ntfs, ghost will load your image to fill the available space in partition one so you can make it any size, note if your version of ghost is 7 you can convert it to ntfs as you load/or dump it it |
mutts (790) | ||
| 59563 | 2002-07-05 01:14:00 | p.p.s. if its going to be over 700mb, you can span it the same and set the span size to whatever, it will prompt you to give a name each time it gets to the size, i generally use the same name but add the increasing numerical at the end, eg image, image1,image2 etc...... |
mutts (790) | ||
| 59564 | 2002-07-05 02:01:00 | Yeah Ghost can compress images. My 1.3gig image is compressed using High compression down to around 640mb which fits into 650mb cd. Anything below 1.5gig should be compressed below 700mb which will fit 700mb cd. There are 3 compression method, 1- no compression, 2- normal compression 3- high compression. I personally always use high compression, but make sure you test you image after you've created it. | boom23 (176) | ||
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