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SCgone

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:45 pm

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OLDNY wrote:

Guys even I am getting to understand this. lol

I want to do the same thing but I never partitioned my first hard drive so it should be a little easier, thanks. notworthy

Ed, Partition Magic has always worked perfectly for me. I've found it's great manipulating drives.

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OLDNY

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:11 pm

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Hi Bob, hope you had a nice day. I have partition magic now, but outside of installing my new hard drive, whenever that happens, I don't see a need to partition my drive. Or as usual am I missing something here? lol

I think it will be a Seagate 8mb/ 7,200 rpm/ 120gb HDD

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SCgone

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:38 pm

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OLDNY wrote:

I think it will be a Seagate 8mb/ 7,200 rpm/ 120gb HDD

Not really any need unless it's just to keep things arranged better. I used to have mine partitioned for multimedia, system, data files and such but I've gone back to one partition now. Some will tell you to have a separate partition for your swap, but that makes no difference in the least if it's the same physical drive.

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OsirisX

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:43 pm

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I perfer this steup,
a partition for my personal stuff 25gs
a partition for xp 25gs
a partition for lh 20gs
a partition for storage 40gs
and a 10g partiton for ghost images.
Therefore all me stuff will be present even if windows some how gets messed up I'll still have all my files and orgainzed.

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OLDNY

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:49 pm

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I guess you could go nuts partitioning but one one hard drive has served me well for two and a half years without partitioning, so why ask for problems. I say if it ain't broken don't fix it. lol

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OsirisX

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:03 pm

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Whell Ed, I think you should still have at least two partitions so you will have some kind of happen if the worst should happen.

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SCgone

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:06 pm

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unknowndarknessx wrote:

Whell Ed, I think you should still have at least two partitions so you will have some kind of happen if the worst should happen.

If the worst happens, it won't matter if you have 10 partitions, you're gonna lose everything. AFA losing Windows, the drive is still accessable and the files will be recoverable.

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OLDNY

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:07 pm

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That is why I back up online to Backup Solutions who put all my programs, music, pictures and files, except Windows XP, on 12 servers located in twelve different locations. I have had to restore twice from them and it was a breeze, didn't even have to be at the computer. thumbsup