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| Thread ID: 100923 | 2009-06-25 10:12:00 | Creating a partition from the c: drive | mathsgood (13356) | Press F1 |
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| 785788 | 2009-06-25 10:12:00 | I searched Google for ages and I've finally decided to use GParted to resize the partition and then format the free space. I've never done this before, so I just want to ask is this a good way? Will I lose any data? Thanks |
mathsgood (13356) | ||
| 785789 | 2009-06-25 10:33:00 | Sometimes you have to do a repair install, sometimes you don't. Its fine, but back up your data first. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 785790 | 2009-06-25 12:52:00 | I haven't used GParted myself but I have done this easily with Paragon Partition Manager and Partition Magic programs. GParted seems to resemble Partition Magic quite closely from what I've seen of it. You should always have all your important data backed up before repartitioning a drive, you just never can be 100% certain it's going to work OK, there are risks involved with this sort of thing. But as long as you're prepared to reinstall the OS and restore your data from backup (if things do go wrong) there isn't much to lose but some time, eh? ;) |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 785791 | 2009-06-25 14:23:00 | Do a checkdisk and defrag beforehand. I prefer PartedMagic now. |
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| 785792 | 2009-06-25 19:41:00 | I use a variety of programs depending on what I have to hand and do use Gparted on a regular basis as it is easy to use as others have said back up first | gary67 (56) | ||
| 785793 | 2009-06-25 21:41:00 | AFAIK Parted Magic uses Gparted, but includes more tools. If all you need to do is partition, Gparted is sufficient. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 785794 | 2009-06-26 09:32:00 | Agree - Parted Magic is a good tool http://partedmagic.com/ | johnd (85) | ||
| 785795 | 2009-06-26 10:42:00 | I've used GParted a lot, and it does a good job of resizing partitions. Parted Magic (not Partition Magic) looks like it's just a live CD which includes GParted as well as some other tools. I did lose data once when I had a powercut in the middle of resizing a partition, so just make sure you've backed up anything important. Make sure you know what file system you want to use (probably NTFS) and if you can, resize the partition from the right rather than the left as this will be much faster. |
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