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15-Jun-2003, 10:40 AM #1
Partitioning Software
some great tools for hard disk management
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15-Jun-2003, 02:01 PM #2
nice link.....i`ll be needing some of them soon
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15-Jun-2003, 02:03 PM #3
how soon and what for ?

remember i got the good stuff up here (Partition magic)
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15-Jun-2003, 02:20 PM #4
Hopefully have win 2000 next week or going with xp.I hear 2000 is the most stable,but so many people have xp.

A ll`s quiet with the cease of the 98 updates,didn`t hear squat.What about you?
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15-Jun-2003, 02:24 PM #5
Yep ..seen a link the other day concerning 98..support has been pushed up another 6 mths to dec31.
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16-Jun-2003, 11:23 AM #6
Hi,

one question I had in my mind (which i couldn't find on those link) was 'if i already have OS installed on C: drive and have 80% of free drivespace, 1-) can i jus simply follow the instruction and create extended dos partition? and then go and create logical drive? or do i need a empty disk in order to use fdisk and create partitions?

sorre if i'm posting this in the rong place...

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16-Jun-2003, 11:39 AM #7
fdisk will be of no use to you unless you want to wipe the drive. The ranish partition manager as well as fips i have used before to resize partitions. a word of cautions here if you can backup all data before attempting to touch any patitions and defrag any drive before youtouch it as well.
I personally don't backup data because i often reformat (6 months)anyway.
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16-Jun-2003, 12:42 PM #8
I still believe that the good old FDISK is the easiest and surest way of partitioning. I did use Partition Magic to resize mt slave HDD from 10/10 GB to 5/15 to let my swap file use the 5GB F: exclisively. But it was slo-o-o-w! I would not even consider using it for normal partitioning.
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16-Jun-2003, 12:44 PM #9
I agree chips , but in this case the user wants to resize.
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16-Jun-2003, 01:09 PM #10
In partition Magic( 5.0 at least), you have the option to skip bad sector checks. That's where the slowness comes from.
With multi drives , it's nice to work with slaves from Windows, when using PM. You only have to go into DOS for the primary master HD .
I also prefer the graphical display of PM to the text display of fdisk- less confusion (IMO).

The only problems I've heard of are when using the Magic Mover option of PM. I've never tried it , and it does sound risky.
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