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 Post subject: Split partition
PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:16 pm 
Wizard of Xor

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Is there any SAFE way to split an existing partition?

Basically, I have a few spare GB on the partition that has XP and all of my files on it. Is there a way to create a new partition out of that?


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:08 pm 
baka

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PartitionMagic


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:21 pm 
Wizard of Xor

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Thanks :D


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:40 pm 
baka

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No problem :)


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:23 pm 
Slave to the BB

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I use EASUS Patition Manager.


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:02 am 
Aleron Coder

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wasnt safe for me, my electricity went bye bye for a few secs and BOOM my HDD was fucked xD


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:03 am 
Illegal Operation

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Don't partition if possible, the benefits are low and the costs are high. Even if it is successful, your still better off not partitioning, especially on NTFS its like pre-fragmentation fragmentation.


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:15 am 
baka

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ghostofbake wrote:
Don't partition if possible, the benefits are low and the costs are high. Even if it is successful, your still better off not partitioning, especially on NTFS its like pre-fragmentation fragmentation.

Unless, like me, you're running XP and Win7 off the same HDD, or you format and reinstall Windows often.


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:36 am 
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Your better off having separate drives in all cases, its faster and the redundancy allows room for the increased possibility of failure (especially since Win7 is beta, you might be mixing filesystems, which store their MFT and BootSector in the middle of the disk, eeek), and you are less likely to delete a partition accidentally. If you want to reformat, backup to another hard drive, or use another hard drive as your user partition. Backing up to another hard drive is better, because it allows you to defrag the data without risking loss, but using two harddrives will increase performance.

Also why are you reformatting Windows all the time when the fragmentation is on the user partition and not on the windows partition?


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:44 am 
baka

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Unfortunately not everybody has an extra drive to play around with, so it's not quite as easy as that.

I format the Windows partition because LOLPIRATE and it's quicker than having to go through all the whining about having a newer version than the install version.


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:52 am 
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Hard Drives are as cheap as chips nowadays, i can get a WD 160GB for $55, that's $43 US. They are also the easiest piece of hardware (besides usb sticks) to get, sold nearly everywhere.

Didn't really understand that last sentence.


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:14 am 
baka

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I keep a library of all my music, games, films etc. on a partition on my terabyte HDD. That HDD also has a WinXP and Win7 partition (one each).

From time to time my XP install screws up in some way, the quickest way to deal with it is to just format the partition and reinstall. If I didn't format I'd have the install disk whining at me about the version that I already have installed being a later version than the install disk.


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 Post subject: Re: Split partition
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:32 pm 
Aleron Coder

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i just got a deal for my sis on ebay for a 160 gig 30 euro HDD; basically what bake was talking about.

atm im like dead broke, but considering a small HDD for the OS might rule.
40-60 gigs would be overkill already for me...


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