Patition for Notebook

[Guest]

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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[DL]

Only with a third party tool, eg Partition Magic

 

[DL]

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.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

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.


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[Guest]

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?

<*(((><

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:



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,

<*(((><

 

[Bruce Chambers]

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.





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[Guest]

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?

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PS: Can I make a bootable disk on my USB flash drive?

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How old? It may not support WinXP's version of NTFS.




No, it would either have to be installed on the target computer, or run
from a bootable diskette or CD.





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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



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,

<*(((><

 

[Bob I]

Is that the "restore partition" for your laptop?

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?

<*(((><








Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly,

<*(((><

 

[Guest]

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!


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Is that the "restore partition" for your laptop?

Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly,

<*(((><