Partitioning a hard drive

[thehatter]

Is ther any way to partition a 120 gb hard drive (112 & 6 form compaq)
without reformatting the drive.

Compaq doesn't ship with systems disks all the info is on the secondary
partition, so I wouldn't have any thing left of my system.

Is there any software that will do it?

Thanks,
tHAT

[Kenny]

Partition Magic.
http://www.powerquest.com/

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Kenny
"thehatter" > wrote in message
...
> Is ther any way to partition a 120 gb hard drive (112 & 6 form compaq)
> without reformatting the drive.
>
> Compaq doesn't ship with systems disks all the info is on the secondary
> partition, so I wouldn't have any thing left of my system.
>
> Is there any software that will do it?
>
> Thanks,
> tHAT
>
>

[D.Currie]

You could use something like Partition Magic, but if you ever had to restore
from that partition, if would set everything back to original, which means
your new partition would be gone.

If the plan is to store data on a separate partition, you might want to just
install a separate drive.

"thehatter" > wrote in message
...
> Is ther any way to partition a 120 gb hard drive (112 & 6 form compaq)
> without reformatting the drive.
>
> Compaq doesn't ship with systems disks all the info is on the secondary
> partition, so I wouldn't have any thing left of my system.
>
> Is there any software that will do it?
>
> Thanks,
> tHAT
>
>

[thehatter]

The thing is my 120gb hard drive. I don't do games or fileswapping so I
would be way happier with 3 40gb drives. 1 winXP, 1 RAID, 1 Linux I find
the 120gb totally useless in one HUGE partition. I have a 20gb now and have
it divided into 3 partitions and hate scrolling, and scrolling and scrolling
through the "gazillion" directories and files.

I need some way get all that space under control, still be able to use my
"system works" and not degrade the system performance.

A guy told me once the bigger the drive space the more wear and tear it was
on the mechanisms searching for files.

tHAT

"D.Currie" > wrote in message
...
> You could use something like Partition Magic, but if you ever had to
restore
> from that partition, if would set everything back to original, which means
> your new partition would be gone.
>
> If the plan is to store data on a separate partition, you might want to
just
> install a separate drive.
>
> "thehatter" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Is ther any way to partition a 120 gb hard drive (112 & 6 form compaq)
> > without reformatting the drive.
> >
> > Compaq doesn't ship with systems disks all the info is on the secondary
> > partition, so I wouldn't have any thing left of my system.
> >
> > Is there any software that will do it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > tHAT
> >
> >
>
>

[D.Currie]

Partition Magic would do what you want, but as I said, you'd be stuck if you
ever had to use Compaq's restore. There's no way around that except for
buying a retail version of XP and using that instead. Which, personally, is
what I'd do anyway. I'm not a big fan of those restore solutions.


"thehatter" > wrote in message
...
> The thing is my 120gb hard drive. I don't do games or fileswapping so I
> would be way happier with 3 40gb drives. 1 winXP, 1 RAID, 1 Linux I
find
> the 120gb totally useless in one HUGE partition. I have a 20gb now and
have
> it divided into 3 partitions and hate scrolling, and scrolling and
scrolling
> through the "gazillion" directories and files.
>
> I need some way get all that space under control, still be able to use my
> "system works" and not degrade the system performance.
>
> A guy told me once the bigger the drive space the more wear and tear it
was
> on the mechanisms searching for files.
>
> tHAT
>
> "D.Currie" > wrote in message
> ...
> > You could use something like Partition Magic, but if you ever had to
> restore
> > from that partition, if would set everything back to original, which
means
> > your new partition would be gone.
> >
> > If the plan is to store data on a separate partition, you might want to
> just
> > install a separate drive.
> >
> > "thehatter" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Is ther any way to partition a 120 gb hard drive (112 & 6 form compaq)
> > > without reformatting the drive.
> > >
> > > Compaq doesn't ship with systems disks all the info is on the
secondary
> > > partition, so I wouldn't have any thing left of my system.
> > >
> > > Is there any software that will do it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > tHAT
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>