Creating a partion without loosing data

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I've been having to defrag a lot lately because I've been writing and
deleting, installing and unstalling, copying movies then deleting them, ect.
I was wondering if it is possible to create one or more new partitions on my
HDD without loosing any of my stuff?
 
You will need a third party application like Partition Magic to do that.
Also I would make an Image backup as a safety net just in case.

JS
 
On second though, the money you put out for Partition Magic and a backup
utility may be more than purchasing a second hard drive.

JS
 
Don't bother with spending money on Partition Magic. You can get Boot IT NG
free trial which will do the repartitioning work for you. The trial is fully
functional and will resize your partition as long as you have plenty of free
space. Get it here

Boot IT NG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

Good Luck,

Joe

Kemco Technician
 
I've been having to defrag a lot lately because I've been writing and
deleting, installing and unstalling, copying movies then deleting them, ect.
I was wondering if it is possible to create one or more new partitions on my
HDD without loosing any of my stuff?
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That really depends on the size of your current Partitions and the
size of your physical HD. Does Disk Management (in Administrative
Tools) show any free space on your physical drive (it shows up as
"unallocated")?.
1) Do your current partitions currently fill up ALL free space on the
HD? If so, you will have to use a third-party Partitioning utility
which can non-destructively partition your HD. But this would
actually be useless, since you would STILL be left with NO FREE space
with which to create a second or third partition if your HD is
currently filled to capacity without deleting files. In that case,
your only solutions would be to either delete files, or install a
secondary HD.
2) Do you currently have free space (un-partitioned space) on the HD?
If so, there is no need to use a third-party partitioning utility.
Just use XP's Disk Administration to create one or more new partitions
in the free (unallocated) space left.
3) If you mean that you want to adjust the size of your System
partition so that you may save more files on it, this will only be
possible if you have free (unpartitioned) space remaining on the
physical disk, and will necessitate the use of a third-party
partitioning utility which can do a non-destructive partition (not
possible with the partition manager included with XP without deleting
files). In any case.

In any case, if you do not have free space with which to create new
partitions, you MUST delete files.


But considering that 200+GB HDs are currently priced very cheaply (I
saw an advertisement for a 200GB IDE HD today priced at $50 on
http://www.tigerdirect.com).

Look, at this:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2268595&sku=TSD-320AS

320GB SATA II for $114!! Good God man, don't you ever browse the Web?

I can attest to TigerDirect's excellent prices and the quality of the
products they sell. Plus, they ALWAYS get their products shipped on
time and at your door pretty much as fast as you want them there
(read: "are willing to pay the shipping charges").

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Donald L McDaniel
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No once you get your partitions the way you like them then uninstall Boot IT
NG and you will be left with the properly configured partitions with 8 MBs
left over from where Boot IT NG removed itself from. It works like a charm
and it pretty easy too. You shouldn't have any problems! Good Luck.

Joe

Kemco Technician
 
I hope this reply doesn't show up twice cause I got an error when trying to
post the last one. If it does, my apologies.

Anyway, I have 232 GB HD with 222 GB free, so I really don't need another
HD. I just wanted to know if I could non-destructively partition so I
wouldn't have to defrag as often. I need one (about 50 GB) to do my DVD
backups, one for the swapfile and one for all the software I download and try
out (install/uninstall).

And yes I do surf the web A LOT. I just have no need to shop for another HD.

regards,
Andy
 
The video shows the first partition as NTFS but the rest as FAT32. Why did he
choose that?
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If I only had a brain :(


Ron Sommer said:
Create a bootable CD or floppy.
Boot to the CD or floppy.
Just cancel the installation of Bootit and enter Maintenance mode.
There is no reason to install Bootit.

Here is a video that shows using Bootit to slide partitions and create a new
one from maintenance mode.
http://www.heffy.com/IFD/create_partition2.wmv
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The video shows all but the first partition as FAT32. Why's that?
 
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