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August 18th 06, 08:58 AM
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Patition for Notebook
I just got a new notebook with an 80 Gig HD. It's all one partition.
I like to keep my OS and documents separate. Is there a way I can partition the drive now? The OS & apps were pre-installed. Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *((( 
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August 18th 06, 11:06 AM
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Patition for Notebook
Only with a third party tool, eg Partition Magic
"*(((" wrote in message news  I just got a new notebook with an 80 Gig HD. It's all one partition. I like to keep my OS and documents separate. Is there a way I can partition the drive now? The OS & apps were pre-installed. Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *(((
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August 18th 06, 11:09 AM
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PS If you have restore cd's / partition and you restore, haveing previously
created a partition, you *may* find that the restore process will delete this new partition. "*(((" wrote in message news I just got a new notebook with an 80 Gig HD. It's all one partition. I like to keep my OS and documents separate. Is there a way I can partition the drive now? The OS & apps were pre-installed. Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *(((
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August 18th 06, 04:25 PM
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*((( wrote:
I just got a new notebook with an 80 Gig HD. It's all one partition. I like to keep my OS and documents separate. Is there a way I can partition the drive now? The OS & apps were pre-installed. Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *((( If the drive is courrently one large partition, there is no way to repartition it using native Windows tools without deleting the existing partition, and creating and formating new partitions, and then reinstalling the OS and applications. There are, fortunately, quite a few 3rd party products that can help you repartition the hard drive non-destructively. Two such products are Symantec's Partition Magic and BootItNG. The latter even has a free, fully functional 30-day evaluation version available for downloading from www.bootitng.com. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum Russell
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August 18th 06, 10:39 PM
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Patition for Notebook
I've got an older version of Partition Magic on a different computer.
Can I copy it to a USB flash drive and run it on my laptop? Or do I have to boot into a separate partition first, in order to partition the laptop? If so, can I make a USB flash drive be a boot disk? *((( On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:25:09 -0600, Bruce Chambers wrote: *((( wrote: I just got a new notebook with an 80 Gig HD. It's all one partition. I like to keep my OS and documents separate. Is there a way I can partition the drive now? The OS & apps were pre-installed. Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *((( If the drive is courrently one large partition, there is no way to repartition it using native Windows tools without deleting the existing partition, and creating and formating new partitions, and then reinstalling the OS and applications. There are, fortunately, quite a few 3rd party products that can help you repartition the hard drive non-destructively. Two such products are Symantec's Partition Magic and BootItNG. The latter even has a free, fully functional 30-day evaluation version available for downloading from www.bootitng.com. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum Russell Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *(((
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August 19th 06, 01:45 AM
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*((( wrote:
I've got an older version of Partition Magic on a different computer. How old? It may not support WinXP's version of NTFS. Can I copy it to a USB flash drive and run it on my laptop? No, it would either have to be installed on the target computer, or run from a bootable diskette or CD. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum Russell
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August 19th 06, 08:57 PM
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I have Partition Magic 2002 -- v8. I installed it on my laptop. It
finds TWO partitions! The second one is a 251MG partition shown at the end, as "Type 88." I cannot find out what it is. It doesn't have a drive letter. PM won't let me split the big 80 GIG C-drive partition, because it says there is another partition which cannot be moved. I went to User Accounts and there's a new account -- ASP.NET Machine A... What is going on here? *((( PS: Can I make a bootable disk on my USB flash drive? *((( On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:45:14 -0600, Bruce Chambers wrote: *((( wrote: I've got an older version of Partition Magic on a different computer. How old? It may not support WinXP's version of NTFS. Can I copy it to a USB flash drive and run it on my laptop? No, it would either have to be installed on the target computer, or run from a bootable diskette or CD. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum Russell Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *(((
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August 21st 06, 02:45 PM
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Is that the "restore partition" for your laptop?
*((( wrote: I have Partition Magic 2002 -- v8. I installed it on my laptop. It finds TWO partitions! The second one is a 251MG partition shown at the end, as "Type 88." I cannot find out what it is. It doesn't have a drive letter. PM won't let me split the big 80 GIG C-drive partition, because it says there is another partition which cannot be moved. I went to User Accounts and there's a new account -- ASP.NET Machine A... What is going on here? *((( PS: Can I make a bootable disk on my USB flash drive? *((( On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:45:14 -0600, Bruce Chambers wrote: *((( wrote: I've got an older version of Partition Magic on a different computer. How old? It may not support WinXP's version of NTFS. Can I copy it to a USB flash drive and run it on my laptop? No, it would either have to be installed on the target computer, or run from a bootable diskette or CD. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum Russell Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *(((
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August 23rd 06, 04:52 AM
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I don't know. My laptop shows only one partition. But Partition
Magic reveals two. I checked PM's help to see what "Type 88" might be, but there was no entry. You've just called it a "restore partition." Is that what it is? I have a restore DVD that came with the laptop. No stand-alone Windows XP OS. Just the restore DVD with all the preloaded apps and junk. Why would there be a separate, hidden "Type 88" partition on my laptop for restoration if I've got a restore DVD? I'd like to partition this laptop, in part so I can put Documents on the 2nd partition. Apparently, it is the existence of the "Type 88" partition, which is unmovable, that is preventing me from using PM from the USB drive. Or do I have to boot from the USB drive in order to get PM to work? I'm soooooo confused! *((( On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:45:38 -0500, Bob I wrote: Is that the "restore partition" for your laptop? *((( wrote: I have Partition Magic 2002 -- v8. I installed it on my laptop. It finds TWO partitions! The second one is a 251MG partition shown at the end, as "Type 88." I cannot find out what it is. It doesn't have a drive letter. PM won't let me split the big 80 GIG C-drive partition, because it says there is another partition which cannot be moved. I went to User Accounts and there's a new account -- ASP.NET Machine A... What is going on here? *((( PS: Can I make a bootable disk on my USB flash drive? *((( On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:45:14 -0600, Bruce Chambers wrote: *((( wrote: I've got an older version of Partition Magic on a different computer. How old? It may not support WinXP's version of NTFS. Can I copy it to a USB flash drive and run it on my laptop? No, it would either have to be installed on the target computer, or run from a bootable diskette or CD. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum Russell Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *((( Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly, *(((
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