Win98SE to XP

[Colin Bearfield]

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I'd also be nervous with you at my computer, talking about
"partitioning a partition" and using mad analogies as a substitute for
clear technical explanations.

"partitioning a partition" did I say that? If i were as good as you
think you are he wouldn't be so nervous.

Colin

 

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"partitioning a partition" did I say that? If i were as good as you
think you are he wouldn't be so nervous.

Colin

Well, I may be confident about the plan. But that's just the plan. i'm
always very nervous about removing a partition, incase I remove the
wrong one. Even if you know what you're doing, it's possible to mess up
if you don't keep checking yourself and anticipating where it could go
wrong. Resizing a partition gets me very very jumpy 'cos what if the
comp restarts. (fortunately that never happened to me, but I guess it'd
be trouble, and the best thing there would be beforehand to backup to
another HDD).

if you're not removing a partition, it's not so risky. But if you're
intent on doing this, then I suggest you do a few dry runs on a toy
HDD.

But I am concerned that you may run into more problems than a typical
techie because your technical understanding seems to be mangled, and
reduced to odd but worldly analogies. You may be worldly but that means
nothing inside a computer.

If you're not deleting (or resizing?), then it's not so risky. At best
- you could fumble your way through safely, which is fine, just time
consuming for you. At worst, i would say the same thing - though I
haven't fully read your plan which Anne had to beat out of you in a
series of masochistic sessions .

You should be able to test the HDD before you travel abroad, so with
all your fumbling, when you reach the end result, you can ensure it's
ok, or fumble some more until it's ok. I don't see much risk to data ,
and I don't even see risk that the plan will fail - **as long as you
check and test everything**. Should be a simple test. The comp in
france is like any comp in britain. And vice versa.

 

[Guest]

Colin responds...
I could borrow such a gadget from a friend but the guy with the
computer in France is nervous about it. he's a good programmer but
doesn't put his hands on the hardware.



Colin responds...
I could and would do this if it helps.


Colin responds...
The external HDD case is what you call the enclosure. Same thing. I
am talking about partitioning at this point because of you. I have
used Acronis True Image but it gobbles up the entire target drive and
I don't want that. You have said that Ghost 2003 will partition to
another partition which is better. Just assuming it is a popular
160Gb HDD I'd make the C: partition about 20Gb and and create several
more. That's the way I like it. In this sense a clone is not aclone,
it depends on the cloning software. BootitNG also clones to a
partition.


Colin responds...






Colin:
Yes, I now understand your objective re partitioning the HD in the USB
external enclosure. If that's what you want to do there's no problem here.
Just make sure you create the partition that will ultimately serve as the C:
partition large enough to accommodate what you can foresee as future needs.
20 GB seems a trifle low to me but you (and your friend) are the best judges
of that.
Anna

Hi

Anna

In more than a quarter of a century I've never had a disaster, that's
why I spend all my time working on somebody else's machine. I just
wanted to air something. When I had to install the HDD for Dell they
insisted on formatting the 160 Gb as one cavernous partition even
though i was short of time. Once they were out of the way I reduced
it to only 20Gb which might seem small to you, but there is this
single fact to weigh in the balance.

To the 20Gb I installed XP, device drivers, Office 97, and a handful
of utilities. It was a fully functional machine with 140Gb of
partitions for data. Yet it probably only used about 2GB of space in
that 20Gb. Certainly the image I created using only normal
compression came to only 1.1 Gb.

There seems to be enough elbow room for me. It's like you saying
you're a dress size 8 when you know that a size 18 is so comfortable.
There I go using analogies again instead of teck speak.

I'll do this in June and let you know if anything went wrong.

Colin