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mobo · 15-Jun-2003, 09:40 AM #1

some great tools for hard disk management

15-Jun-2003, 01:01 PM #2

nice link.....i`ll be needing some of them soon

mobo · 15-Jun-2003, 01:03 PM #3

how soon and what for ?

remember i got the good stuff up here (Partition magic)

15-Jun-2003, 01:20 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?

mobo · 15-Jun-2003, 01:24 PM #5

Yep ..seen a link the other day concerning 98..support has been pushed up another 6 mths to dec31.

EDD32 · 16-Jun-2003, 10:23 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...

Thanks

mobo · 16-Jun-2003, 10:39 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.

**pyritechips** · 16-Jun-2003, 11:42 AM #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.

mobo · 16-Jun-2003, 11:44 AM #9

I agree chips , but in this case the user wants to resize.

Stoner · 16-Jun-2003, 12:09 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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