Partitioning A Hdd

[Champ]

Hey i now how to partition, but what exactly does it do? and will i be able to acess both the new partition and all of the things on the other part of my computer?

[kaiweiler]

Partitioning a hard drive kind of splits it into parts.
You can make one 80gb hard drive act as a 30gb and a 50gb for example, and yes you can access both of these. It is the same as having two sperate drives in your computer.

[SingaBoiy]

Get yourself Partition Magic and use that. Very easy and fast to do.

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by SingaBoiy@28 June 2004 - 23:15
Get yourself Partition Magic and use that. Very easy and fast to do.
He said he already knew how ;)
and anyway, once you partition your hard drive it will look something like this for example, here is mine.
http://img48.photobucket.com/albums/v147/kaiweiler/drives.jpg
This is all partitioned off of one hard drive

[Champ]

thats sweet thanks guys


@ singaboiy thats easier than what i was plannin on (puttin in my boot disc and creating partitoins lol)

[SingaBoiy]

Originally posted by kaiweiler+28 June 2004 - 18:16--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (kaiweiler @ 28 June 2004 - 18:16)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-SingaBoiy@28 June 2004 - 23:15
Get yourself Partition Magic and use that. Very easy and fast to do.
He said he already knew how ;)
and anyway, once you partition your hard drive it will look something like this for example, here is mine.
http://img48.photobucket.com/albums/v147/kaiweiler/drives.jpg
This is all partitioned off of one hard drive [/b][/quote]
Didnt see that part. lol

How big is that hdd?

[lee551]

i&#39;m kinda curious too. must be pretty big, or you have a small amount of music & movies... :lol:

[Entity101]

If you don&#39;t need Partition Magic then I advise you to stay away from it. It can really screw things up bigtime.

It is better to use a bootdisk and good old FDISK. Plenty of tutorials can be found on the internet.

[SingaBoiy]

I f*uckin hate error 403 :angry:

[tesco]

Originally posted by Error403@29 June 2004 - 04:31
If you don&#39;t need Partition Magic then I advise you to stay away from it. It can really screw things up bigtime.

It is better to use a bootdisk and good old FDISK. Plenty of tutorials can be found on the internet.
In what ways can it screw things up "big time"?

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004+29 June 2004 - 11:06--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ROSSCO_2004 @ 29 June 2004 - 11:06)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Error403@29 June 2004 - 04:31
If you don&#39;t need Partition Magic then I advise you to stay away from it. It can really screw things up bigtime.

It is better to use a bootdisk and good old FDISK. Plenty of tutorials can be found on the internet.
In what ways can it screw things up "big time"? [/b][/quote]
My thoughts exactly, if you don&#39;t know what your doing, even Fdisk can screw things up bigtime

[scooper]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@29 June 2004 - 15:36
My thoughts exactly, if you don&#39;t know what your doing, even Fdisk can screw things up bigtime
My dad always told me that. He was a serious &#39;puter geek.

But I used Fdisk numerous times with never a screw up.

Although, Partition Magic is definitely the way to go, especially if you&#39;re not planning on formatting the drive.

[vivitron 15]

woooh, whats with hatin on error?

anyhow, be very careful when you do stuff like this - i personally use partuition magic 7 - i had 8, but it screwed up when i tried to do some basic stuff, and i lost quite a lot of data...i suspect the drive to be maybe a bit faulty, but cant be sure though

anyhow, just do everything slowly and you should be ok whichever route you take :)

[DazedAndConfused]

I agree that using partition magic can be risky. I recently had a 160 gig music partition fail that had been created using partition magic. Only ever partition an empty unformatted drive.

[clocker]

Originally posted by DazedAndConfused@5 July 2004 - 03:51
I agree that using partition magic can be risky. I recently had a 160 gig music partition fail that had been created using partition magic. Only ever partition an empty unformatted drive.
How does a partition (once created) fail?
Using PM I have moved,deleted, resized and merged partitions without ever losing ( or, if you prefer-loosing) data.

Naturally, having said that, right now I can&#39;t get the damn program to even open...perhaps my move to SATA has confused it....but all my partitions are still healthy and in place.

[DazedAndConfused]

When i say it failed, i mean the operating system could not &#39;see&#39; the partition.

I merged two partitions on the slave drive to make space to store all my files from the master drive- by merging the two i would need less free space. I then deleted the existing partitions, set up new partitions, and formatted the master drive during windows installation, with the slave disconnected. Having set up windows, i reconnected the slave, expecting to find all my files, only to have windows report the disk is not formatted.

Fortunately i was able to get most of my files from friends who had copied from me previously. I tried using pm to fix the partition, but to no avail.

(loosing?)

[tesco]

loosing becuase he is making fun of me. :P


You say that you merged partitions, then deleted them, then formatted the windows partition and installed and expected to find what files? you didn&#39;t mention copying over any files after deleting the partition. ;)

[lynx]

I&#39;ve had similar problems with PM. I only use it when I need to expand or contract a partition which already has data on it and I don&#39;t have space elsewhere to store the data, but I think the problems only occur when you create new partitions from scratch.

I believe it has something to do with having an extra 64 sectors at the beginning of the disk. Some OS&#39;s can use these sectors, but the disk has to be set up in a certain way. I think PM sometimes screws this up slightly, so that when you install a new OS it assumes you are NOT using those 64 sectors, so it can&#39;t see your partitions.

In contrast, Win2k, and XP ALWAYS get it right.