Need advise partitioning an NTFS drive please.

[me]

I am using XP home and have Partition Magic 2002. My notebook drive is
an 80 gig and I want to re-partition it into 2 drives. Would it be best
to split it in half? Or? Will Partition Magic do this without losing any
data? I heard that you lose data when re-partioning NTFS drives but I don't
know if it's true. I have used it on FAT 32 drives and never lost a byte.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

[Nicholas]

Partition Magic Instructional Videos
http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id3709.cfm


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Nicholas

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| I am using XP home and have Partition Magic 2002. My notebook drive is
| an 80 gig and I want to re-partition it into 2 drives. Would it be best
| to split it in half? Or? Will Partition Magic do this without losing any
| data? I heard that you lose data when re-partioning NTFS drives but I don't
| know if it's true. I have used it on FAT 32 drives and never lost a byte.
|
| Any advise would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
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[djs]

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I am using XP home and have Partition Magic 2002. My notebook drive is
an 80 gig and I want to re-partition it into 2 drives. Would it be
best
to split it in half? Or? Will Partition Magic do this without losing
any data? I heard that you lose data when re-partioning NTFS drives
but I don't know if it's true. I have used it on FAT 32 drives and
never lost a byte.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

I trust PartitionCrapic about as far as I could get a head shot in on a
PowerQuest executive (about 25 yards). Although PartitionCrapic is
"supposed" to work fine in the circumstance you describe, I would
recommend using BootIt NG instead. (And regardless which utility you
use, I'd very strongly encourage you to backup and run "chkdsk /r"
first.)

What you'd do in BootIt NG is resize your existing partition, then boot
into WinXP and use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to create a partition
in the newly-created free space.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am using XP home and have Partition Magic 2002. My notebook drive is
an 80 gig and I want to re-partition it into 2 drives. Would it be best
to split it in half? Or?

I'd split it asymmetrically - around 15GB should be plenty for system
and programs, have the rest for data. You *could* even split that as a
smaller section for small but vital files (letters, financial records)
and a big one for big data files, like downloaded music files and
videos, that is up to you.

Will Partition Magic do this without losing any
data? I heard that you lose data when re-partioning NTFS drives but I don't
know if it's true.

It isn't. You should be sure though that it is the latest PM 8 - or at
the very least 7.01 - or it may not handle XP's version of NTFS. But as
always, have critical data backed up, just in case (eg if the power
failed at a vital moment)