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Thread ID: 59301	2005-06-27 21:58:00	Partition hard drive	JJJJJ (528)	Press F1

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367460	2005-06-27 21:58:00	Is there any way I can put a partition on my hard disk WITHOUT doind a complete re-install. Useing XP. I don't want to buy Partition Magic to use just once.	JJJJJ (528)
367461	2005-06-27 22:50:00	plenty of free partition managers around take a google look.......	drcspy (146)
367462	2005-06-27 23:17:00	I'll tell you what I did Jack, when I wanted to add another partition, and my version of PM is far too old for XP. I use plug-in hard drive caddies for backup and running other OSs, so one way is to clone (I use Ghost) the existing drive to another connected as slave. Then you can re-partition and format your original drive. Then clone the backup drive to the original. With Ghost, you can do that partition by partition. You would need to check that the actual data size of the backup partitions are smaller than the newly made partitions, else they wont fit back on. I suppose making image files of each partition would do the same, but I prefer cloning as I think it is safer.	Terry Porritt (14)
367463	2005-06-27 23:38:00	i have done it . first back up all data . then defrag your drive . you need to set the defrag to move everything to the front of the drive (how you do that depends on what defrag you have) . you can then use one of the many free partitioning tools (eg randish) to make a new partition AFTER the location of the data is . if any data is in the space of the new partition the file it belongs to will be corrupt . fingers crossed . btw i like terrys idea better :)	tweak'e (69)
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