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Posted by robin on Jun-05-2004 14:45:

partition magic

ok, got partition magic 8 and 82gb hdd. and now i have a couple questions.

1 if i want to reinstall windows, which is curently on c drive. can i remove winxp from there, with out the rest of my stuff get deleted?

and why can't i make bigger partitions then 8gb? (got 20 gb free)

looked in help file.. not much help there

well.. kthnxbye

Posted by Nell on Jun-14-2004 00:04:

firstly, with todays ultra fast hard drives (7200rp +) there's no need for partioning it too much, the drives find the sectors so quickly it makes almost no difference.

anyway...

if you have the drive seperated into say, 2 parts c: and d:, move everyhting you want to keep file wise onto d: then format c: and reinstall windows on c:, everything on d: will then be accesable again. remember you can always overwrite windows witha new installation without formating your drive if you want to.

Posted by madhattared on Jul-07-2004 15:32:

u might have to upgrade your bios depending on how old your computer is to support bigger hard drives