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June 3, 2008 at 12:08 pm

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e_babes

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I would like to re-partition one of my drives and I hear a Linux Boot up disc can do this without having to re-install any software or loosing any data.

Whereas windows will require me to re-install and I will lose all my data.

Can anyone help? I’ve got about 800MB left of the partition which is a mega pain.
June 3, 2008 at 12:24 pm

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Before you do anything back it up mate… I lost my whole music collection a while ago trying to partition my spare harddrive :hopeless:
June 3, 2008 at 12:38 pm

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e_babes

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starlaugh;220243 wrote:

Before you do anything back it up mate… I lost my whole music collection a while ago trying to partition my spare harddrive :hopeless:

:crazy:

No problem – we are talking about a backup rather than a restore point.

See I can live without the music part, but it’s the software and other data that I don’t want to lose. This is my main c drive that I need to partition –

I hear the alarm bells ringing
June 3, 2008 at 1:04 pm

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SdZ

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Do you actually plan on installing Linux ? or just use it to repartition ?

If you want to install Linux then they tend to do it all for you repartition, setup a boot loader etc.. Without breaking your windows installation.

If you want to just repartition then get a copy of partition magic which is pretty good for resizing thing without reinstalling anything.

As above, BACKUP and backup some more…
June 3, 2008 at 1:05 pm

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General Lighting

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This is potentially dangerous, however you do it.

Yes, you could possibly use a Linux live CD to mount and repartition the existing NTFS volume. Still dangerous though as a multitude of things can go pear-shaped.

I can see the dilemma though if you don’t have original disks for the software.

is there no way you could simply get a external drive and move away data/documents to this and anything else what doesn’t need to be on C:?
June 3, 2008 at 9:18 pm

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General Lighting;220254 wrote:

is there no way you could simply get a external drive and move away data/documents to this and anything else what doesn’t need to be on C:?

This is probably a good Idea as they are cheap as chips nowadays..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000WP0NM8/ref=nosim/2009-external-hard-drive-21
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