Drive partitioning - decrypter's waya :)

[blutach]

This thread deserves reviving!

Wherea ara youa leetle buddia?

Regardza

[BR7]

If your not to confident partitioning your hard drive are the hard drive kits as easy as they claim to be would they be the best solution for beginners

[Chewy]

practise makes perfect, I used the old dos floppy methods for far too long
fdisk format etc. it was so lame. Windows xp is great. Unless your
motherboard or OS doesn't fully support your harddrive stay away from 3rd party software, you are just asking for drive translation problems,
this is when you stick a 3rd interpreter into the interface. Your hard drive and
motherboard have to communicate with windows, the kit acts as a translator.
Communication can get garbled.
In control panel there's an icon called administrative tools/computer management/disk management/ here's where the power of xp gets strong with the force, just stay away from dynamic volumes. You can create system
partitions(be sure and set active or they won't boot if you want to do a clean install on them later) data partitions, format quick or slow, delete partitions that have been hosed, etc

[BR7]

Thanks for your help that don't sound to painful

[Chewy]

or lika decryptur saya mia computo rit clika managa

[anonymez]

had to revive this thread lol haven't seen decrypter in a while...

btw another way to safely & easily partition a drive is GParted

edit: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

[jm1647]

a thread discussing partitioning needs to be seen....a very good thing to do

[Chewy]

I am too old school to trust any repartitioning tool, unless all my data is backed up somewhere, seen too many issues with "third party translation".

chewy chicken

[anonymez]

Gparted FAQ:

Short answer: Yes, it is safe
By using the official tools for each filesystem and performing extensive checks before any actual operation i think GParted is as safe as it can/should be.

Of course you have to realize i cannot give any quarantees, so you should probably make a backup of important data before toying with your partitions.

i back up data as well, but only files i really can't afford to lose, but those are usually backed up somewhere anyway. played around with this app a lot, all sorts of file systems, never an issue.

[BR7]

Very informativeThanks for posting anon I have an old 30 gig drive I can practice on this way I wont have to take it to major geeks to install my new HD when I get one and I will save myself $30-$40

[Chewy]

I know it would be safe for you anony and me, we didn't use anything funky to set our drives up originally, when a beginner starts he can be using some
off the wall third party translation to set up the drive, of course I haven't looked into this in years, programs are probably a lot better now.

[jm1647]

No problem repartitioning any drives that had data that I have done using Partition Magic 7. Of course it pays to have your partitions in mind when installing a new HDD and do it then

[lfcrule1972]

Shame decrypter isa nota herea - I really valueda the professionla adviceo given.

[blutach]

I miss the little fella. Pity he's no longer in contact. Real shame that.

Regards