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Originally posted by Striker
well, heres another option, although risky, i have done it before when i had only one parition.
I defraged my comp about 3-4 times in hopes that all the files went to the beginning of my hard drive. Then i used parition magic, got the new parition. Formated the parition, then moved the files over. I can't remmeber if i lost any files over that though.. but i do add, it is risky..
other than that.. all the other options mentioned are good.. once you get your hard drive paritioned once,, you'll wonder why you never did it before.. i always parition hard drives when i put together a comp for someon else
You call that risky? When you put the OS back and that stuff the files the OS puts on the hard drive may be put over the files he had before. Its very risky.
I dont know if understood well but you telling him to format it (when you people fromat a hd the files dont go away they still there but the access to them is "deleted" and the hd after that, gets the info that the space left by tthat files is free.) and then use a program to recover them? Its very risky...
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