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Wolfy27
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How to divide my HD ?

Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:40 am

I have a 40 GB HD and I'd like to put just the Windows files on a separate Directory from my other files (programs, games. MP3's, pictures.... ) is there any way I could do that without having to format the HD ? I've been reading about partitioning the HD but to me it seems kind of complicated and I dont wanna mess up my files. Please help a newbi 8)

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Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:10 am

Well, if everything's already installed, it's best to just leave it be. If this is a new install, you can partition the drive during setup if installing Win2K or XP or before setup using FDISK if installing Win9x.
 
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Sat Aug 16, 2003 1:52 pm

Although repartitioning the drive after installation is perfectly possible, the issue here is your already-installed programs, games, etc. I'm afraid that if you took those and moved them off to a different partition, you'd be left with a _very_ messed-up system.
 
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Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:40 pm

Partition magic will repartition a hard drive on the fly, and does a decent job, although its very time consuming. As for remaping the new partions after your done Partition magic has the function but I personaly have never used that function.
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Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:33 pm

A good reason to partition:

My anti-virus just took out my system last weekend - I couldn't do Safe OS, I couldn't do Recovery Console, heck, I couldn't even do repair installation.

Soooooo - wipe C:.

Guess what - my profiles, My Documents, downloads, etc, etc were all on other partitions.

Soooooo - wipe the OS partition, install OS, and go through the hell of installing all the apps again.

Buuuuuut, no loss of data! (Short of application settings.)
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Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:30 am

Partition magic hauled ass when I used it.
 
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Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:00 am

morphine wrote:
Although repartitioning the drive after installation is perfectly possible, the issue here is your already-installed programs, games, etc. I'm afraid that if you took those and moved them off to a different partition, you'd be left with a _very_ messed-up system.

I have done this...I used Norton WinDoctor (3.0) in manual mode. It took a while, but the results were good.
*NOTE* everything referenced here is/was on Windows 98 SE.
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Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:07 am

Revenent wrote:
A good reason to partition:

My anti-virus just took out my system last weekend - I couldn't do Safe OS, I couldn't do Recovery Console, heck, I couldn't even do repair installation.

Soooooo - wipe C:.

Guess what - my profiles, My Documents, downloads, etc, etc were all on other partitions.

Soooooo - wipe the OS partition, install OS, and go through the hell of installing all the apps again.

Buuuuuut, no loss of data! (Short of application settings.)

I do something similar with mine; I use windows built in backup utility on my 2 gig windows drive and do complete backup, including the registry, to another partition. Then, if/when Windows goes nuts, I wipe C: and do a minimal install of Windows. As soon as I can boot into windows I restore the backup, and I'm good to go. Total time, about a half hour.
morphine wrote:
Although repartitioning the drive after installation is perfectly possible, the issue here is your already-installed programs, games, etc. I'm afraid that if you took those and moved them off to a different partition, you'd be left with a _very_ messed-up system.

I have done this...I used Norton WinDoctor (3.0) in manual mode. It took a while, but the results were good.
*NOTE* everything referenced here is/was on Windows 98 SE.
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