Advice re Partition Magic

[Lee Bowman]

I have Partition Magic vs 7.01, and want to do the following:

Current setup: An 80 gig drive partitioned C:E: (20/30/30), and all
are formatted Fat32

This may seem unneccessary to ask, since this is a function of PM, but
sometimes better to ask than not. I am running out of room on drive
C:, and I'd like the drive to be re-partitioned in half (C: 40/40).
There is currently nothing on the middle partition D:.

If I use PM 7.01 to move the partition boundry, is there any risk to
the data on C: (however slight)? Op system XP Pro.

I have a 30 gig drive I could put in to back C: up on, or is that even
necessary?

Best regards,
Lee

 

[DL]

The advice is always to backup
Whilst a backup of documents is fine using any backup software to backup the
os you realy need either a comprehensive backup app or eg Norton Ghost which
makes a copy of the o/s disk
David

 

[werner stern]

My 2cents on this is that you can expand the "C:" drive and reduce the "D"
drive.

Couple of ideas. Put the 30gig drive in as a second hd. The OS will reassign
drive letters to be C:,E;,F for the 1st drive and the second drive starts
with D:, and whatever you decide.

I have a question here. Why is the C drive filling up? The C drive should be
only the system drive and the rest of the drive could and should be turned
into 2 additional logical drive one for your programs and the rest for data
and/or backup.

How big is your drive and why is it filling up. What os are you using? You
can use PM7.01 to make all of this work for you. Obviously it won't move the
programs safely but if you backup all your data then you can reinstall the
programs on the other logical drives.

The reason for all this is that when your os crashes you won't lose your
data or programs and you can reinstall/repaid the os with as little problem
as possible. There are a few other things to do but I don't know your
situation. If you conbtact me directly I can answer your questions. Or you
can do it here.

Good luck

 

[LVTravel]

Placing your programs on a drive/partition other than the OS is not an
answer to not having to reinstall the programs when Windows crashes and
needs to be reinstalled. If more than an in-place repair install is done,
the registry will not have all the information needed to run any but the
most rudimentary programs.

Placing data on a separate drive/partition is absolutely a good idea.

If you ghost the C: drive to a different hard drive or partition after
installing all software to the C: drive, this is the best protection to
salvaging the original C: drive without total reinstall.

 

[werner stern]

You are right. I was suggesting this as a future solution.

 

[Lee Bowman]

The advice is always to backup

Whilst a backup of documents is fine using any backup software to backup the
os you realy need either a comprehensive backup app or eg Norton Ghost which
makes a copy of the o/s disk
David

I've backed up the C on a second drive with XXCOPY, but have not
firmly decided to repartition, or if so, which software to use. I'm
also looking at C to see why it's grown so large.

Lee

 

[Lee Bowman]

Couple of ideas. Put the 30gig drive in as a second hd. The OS will reassign

drive letters to be C:,E;,F for the 1st drive and the second drive starts
with D:, and whatever you decide.

I have a question here. Why is the C drive filling up? The C drive should be
only the system drive and the rest of the drive could and should be turned
into 2 additional logical drive one for your programs and the rest for data
and/or backup.

I got a ton of stuff, including data files that I should probably
move. I've been sloppy about installing some programs all on C,
rather than data files on another partition. I already see some huge
Agent usenet directories.

How big is your drive and why is it filling up. What os are you using?

20 Gb, 88% full. XP Pro. Right now I'm listing out the directories,
sorted by size, with Glenn Alcott's 'Directory Printer' to see where
the fluff is.

I'll be back!

 

[LVTravel]

Lee, as has been suggested, use Partition Magic to shrink or eliminate the
30 GB D partition. Move the entire partition or part of it to the C:
partition. Make sure that all programs and the OS are on the C drive. If
you split the programs to the D or E drive partitions and you have to
reinstall the OS and programs you will invariably have orphaned program code
on the D or E drive as it is almost impossible to remember where you
installed the programs/temp directories,etc. one or two years later.

You may insert the 30 GB HDD and it will normally appear as drive D. Format
it as a FAT 32 drive and don't store any thing on it except your Ghost
backups. You can then use this drive to do a Ghost backup of the C: drive
without any problem. Make sure you use Ghost's compression since you will
now have a larger C drive (40-50 GB).

Good luck

 

[Buddy B buddyb]

I already see some huge
Agent usenet directories.

This maybe because you are not removing attachments from the msg.

Goto GROUP | Default properties For All groups | Receive Files and check
"After saving an attachment,remove it from the msg."

Others have mentioned it but a small partition of maybe 5 GB for the C
drv is plenty if you don`t install any programs there, a best way, I
think.

 

[Lee Bowman]

This maybe because you are not removing attachments from the msg.

You're right! Also, the trash folder should be emptied as well, cause
it's huge!

Others have mentioned it but a small partition of maybe 5 GB for the C
drv is plenty if you don`t install any programs there, a best way, I
think.

5 GB is small today, but it hasn't been that long since the first 1 GB
drive came out.

 

[Buddy B buddyb]

You're right! Also, the trash folder should be emptied as well, cause
it's huge!


5 GB is small today, but it hasn't been that long since the first 1 GB
drive came out.

We`ll probably need a 10 GB C drv if MS keeps putting out "updates".

I did`nt set up an Agent trash folder.