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Thread ID: 90463	2008-06-04 05:19:00	Partition shuffling help	Jamezo (1062)	Press F1

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675420	2008-06-04 05:19:00	I’m getting a 200 GB Hitachi drive to supplement my existing 250 GB drive on my laptop, and would like to know the best way to achieve my desired setup. Current setup: Primary Vista partition C: and factory recovery partition D: on existing drive. What I want to get to: Copy of existing primary partition as C: on new drive, bulk storage partition E: and recovery D: on old drive, I would like to be able to carve up E: into other partitions at some stage. Slight exacerbating factor, currently using 218 GB or 203 GiB on C:, I guess I can shuffle it round on a network or uninstall some stuff to be able to fit it all as a straight partition clone. I have access to Partition Magic etc. What I want to know is what order to do things so that Windows correctly recognises the new copied partition as C: and the recovery partition on the old disk as D: (vaguely important if I ever need to use it) Once that is sorted, I want to get a triple-boot happening with ubuntu and OSX86, but that's another can of worms altogether. Cheers, James	Jamezo (1062)
675421	2008-06-04 23:13:00	Why not just split the new drive into 3. Make an image of the current drive (the whole thing not just partitions), that way you have a backup for it. Then put your other O/Ss on the other 2 partitions. And I'd get a Seagate over Hitachi.	pctek (84)
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