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?
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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?
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.
Get yourself Partition Magic and use that. Very easy and fast to do.
He said he already knew how ;)Quote:
Originally posted by SingaBoiy@28 June 2004 - 23:15
Get yourself Partition Magic and use that. Very easy and fast to do.
and anyway, once you partition your hard drive it will look something like this for example, here is mine.
http://img48.photobucket.com/albums/...ler/drives.jpg
This is all partitioned off of one hard drive
thats sweet thanks guys
@ singaboiy thats easier than what i was plannin on (puttin in my boot disc and creating partitoins lol)
He said he already knew how ;)Quote:
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.
and anyway, once you partition your hard drive it will look something like this for example, here is mine.
http://img48.photobucket.com/albums/...ler/drives.jpg
This is all partitioned off of one hard drive [/b][/quote]
Didnt see that part. lol
How big is that hdd?
i'm kinda curious too. must be pretty big, or you have a small amount of music & movies... :lol:
If you don'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.
I f*uckin hate error 403 :angry:
In what ways can it screw things up "big time"?Quote:
Originally posted by Error403@29 June 2004 - 04:31
If you don'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]Quote:
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'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.
My thoughts exactly, if you don't know what your doing, even Fdisk can screw things up bigtime
My dad always told me that. He was a serious 'puter geek.Quote:
Originally posted by kaiweiler@29 June 2004 - 15:36
My thoughts exactly, if you don't know what your doing, even Fdisk can screw things up bigtime
But I used Fdisk numerous times with never a screw up.
Although, Partition Magic is definitely the way to go, especially if you're not planning on formatting the drive.
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 :)
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?Quote:
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.
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'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.
When i say it failed, i mean the operating system could not 'see' 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?)
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't mention copying over any files after deleting the partition. ;)
I'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'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'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't see your partitions.
In contrast, Win2k, and XP ALWAYS get it right.