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Originally posted by ---+[Matty]+---
you can use norton ghost to make an image of the drive now when you do this and expand the image it will put all files back which i doubt you wanna do
and where will he save the image? If he could he'd saved the files
About Partition Magic, I've never had problems with it. Just be sure that the version you're using / going to use supports the version of the NTFS file system you're going to manage. In other words, if you're going to install Win XP with NTFS, you'll need Partition Magic 8. Versions 7 and earlier may not work properly, because the NTFS version that Win XP uses is (a bit) different from the one used by 2000 or NT 4.
Of course you allways have to remember this:
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Originally posted by MoRiA
I'm not guaranteeing that PM8 will keep your files intact, neither do the publishers as they warn you before you do anything that the hard drive could suffer nuclear meltdown.
Your particular hardware configuration may not be 100% compatible with PM and thing can go wrong.
Oh! When I use PM with windows NT/2000/XP and/or NFTS partitions, I
allways use it from the recovery disks. I create them, shut down and boot using them. There may be more problems if you try to use PM inside Windows because PM tells you that it has to restart and do some stuff with boot.ini and etc... and that's more dangerous.
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Originally posted by MoRiA
I was defragging 6 drives (3 physical drives & 3 partitions)
3 drives and 3 partitions??
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Originally posted by MoRiA
with Norton Speed Disk similtaneously
very
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Originally posted by Avon
think that if you boot from the WIN XP disk you can spilt up the HD but im not so sure
what you can do is
delete a partition and create 2 small ones where it was originally.
Oh! one more thing. If you're going to use PM, before spliting, try to empty your hard disk all you can and then do a defrag. It's safer to do that before spliting.
And before merging again (after reinstalling) I'd do this: copy (copy, not move) the 19 Gb files to a folder of the other partition and then merge both. Then, if all goes well, you can delete one copy of the files.
Good luck
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