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Can anyone tell me how to partition my hard drive so that I have a C:\ drive and a D:\ drive?
I know how to get to the disk management area, I just don't know what to do from there 
Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Compuetr Management >> Disk Management
That is where I have got to so far.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:06 pm |
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I don't think Windows comes with a tool that will partition a drive leaving the data intact. You can do it if you're willing to lose all the data on the disk, but otherwise you'll need something like Partition Magic.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:12 pm |
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| balistic wrote: |
| I don't think Windows comes with a tool that will partition a drive leaving the data intact. You can do it if you're willing to lose all the data on the disk, but otherwise you'll need something like Partition Magic. |
Cheers.
I think you can  I had to do it once before but I had someone take me through it. But now I can't remember how to actually do it:P
Is this Partition Magic easy to use aye? |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:42 pm |
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Definitely back-up any important data before partitioning a disk . . . sometimes thing go awry
Partition Magic is pretty much a point-and-click commercial product, so it's easy. However, you might try one of the free partition managers on the free
Ultimate Boot CD. In particular, the Ranish partition manager on there might do what you're looking for.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:46 pm |
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| Thanks a lot for your help mate. I'll try it straight away |
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