Split Primary Partition - Logical Partition
Aug 17, 2005
i plan to format my computer again and this time i plan to split my primary partition before i format. When i go to format i want to format only the active partition with windows in it.I have two questions. This trick does work right? the partition i created in windows using magic partition 8 won't be formated along with the active partition right? I plan to backup everything on my second partition.When i created the second partition i had two options. to either make it a logical partition or a primary partition. I chose primary partition. would that work?i plan to install windows xp pro sp2.
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Nov 23, 2008
My hard disk arrangement is C(primary partition FAT32)for Windows XP
D(extended logical FAT32) for non-os data (movies, pictures etc..)
F(primary NTFS) for Vista..
I am formatting F: and then C: through XP installation CD
(and C->NTFS from FAT32)
is this ok???
will D: be accessible after installing XP on C???
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Nov 16, 2007
I have my Windows format disc and I want to create another partition with it. I tried to create one, but it said something like "You have no more space to create another partition because you used up all your space on your Windows primary partition". See, when I reformatted my computer a while back I just created 1 partition for Windows and applied all the space onto that partition.
If there is a way I could remove some space off of my Windows primary partition and create another partition with the space I removed. I want to do this so I can put general things in my other partition such as documents, music, etc. and just leave the other partition for Windows and programs.
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Dec 31, 2009
I would like to know if it´s possible to take free space from an extended partition and redistribute it to a primary partition using partition magic 8.0..both partitions are NTFS
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Mar 10, 2006
I have 1 Western digital hd, 80 g. 1 Maxtor 200 g.
Now, I had winxp pro installed on WD, C: and extra partition F:.
I had a copy of C: from the WD on the Maxtor, along with partitions G:H:I:J:. All worked fine for a while.
I tried installing Win server 2003 on WD F: partition. It ran fine.
Now, I deleted server 2003 partition. To make a long story short, I wiped all drives and partitions. Even with using fdisk, maxblast, wipeout, etc. C: drive is still split into logical 1 and logical 2,So my 80 g is showing as roughly 20 and 60 .
Also I have an Emachines w2785, 1.73 ghz amd, 512 ram, HAD xp pro.
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Mar 25, 2010
Im not sure what i deleted but i deleted a partition or a logical drive while reinstalling windows XP now my second HDD or Partition or Logical Drive is not showing. & when i go to DIsk mangment it does not diplay an unallocated space, RAW drive or unformatted drive its just the C: drive laying there.Is there any chance of recovering the drive but not the files the D drive only.
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Aug 29, 2005
I deleted the priamry partition on my gateway computer. Windows XP. Is my home computer and it was infected with tons of viruses. I think I screw up big time. I keep putting the recovery Cd back in, but at one point it doesn't recognice some of the files that is uploading. After a while it goes to a black screen.
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Aug 6, 2007
I have a Dell Power Edge server with a C: drive that is too small. The RAID array is about 40GB but only 9 GB was given for the C: drive and it has run out of space so I cannot install service packs, extra software, etc. The remaining space is an F: drive with the "data" on it. What method should I use to extend the partition, I am thinking of just moving all of the F: drive to an external hard drive and then deleting the F: drive and trying to extend the partition in Windows Disk Manager, but I wonder if that will even work, or if there is a better tool out there to use to manage these partitions. I would like to preserve the Windows installation and everything on the C: drive if at all possible. I dont care if I have an F: drive, if I can just get a big enough C: drive, that will be fine.
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Mar 20, 2007
I installed gentoo on my primary hard drive and have boot, swap and root partitions on it and they take up the whole drive. I want to install windows on the secondary hard disk but it is saying it needs a compatible partition on the primary drive but it is already full!
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Aug 16, 2005
How do I make the second partition, which includes all files from another hard drive, pretend that it is the main partition? I want to simulate the second partition being my main one for a while.
OR
How do I resize system partitions?
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Apr 22, 2007
What are the steps needed to access one of my partitions, delete it, then use 1/2 the space and apply to system drive and the other 1/2 to another partition?
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Feb 5, 2008
I bought a new computer.It appears to have been partitioned into a NTFS format and FAT32 format.The default drive for my documents & my pictures etc is the NTFS which I have been using happily. It is Media Centre Edition so I also have a few large files (>4GB) - though I dont keep them long term.NTFS partition has fulled up - but I cant move my large files to other partition to free up space
I've done a little bit of reading but my question is "Should I reformat the FAT32 to make it more of use to me?".I cant really see the need arising to access older OS files, except .JPG's (photo's I had on my old Windows ME Comp) or "Should I move all my smaller files (documents and photo's) to the FAT32 partition and use the NTFS drive for the bigger files?"
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Jul 7, 2010
Now I am having multiple new problems. I want to completely erase the hard drive and install a new version of XP Home, not Pro. At the beginning of the installation process, it gathers system info. Immediately it responds with "no valid system partition" and the only option is to exit from the process. How can I get past this to complete the installation?
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Jul 25, 2005
My existing C: drive. First I was getting the "Error 983" error. Then I un-installed SP2 which was causing a gang of problems, freezing programs for a couple mins mostly. After I got it uninstalled I did a disk defrag, then a chkdsk /f. Now I have partitioned the drive using PM8 again and this time after the reboot it is telling me it is completed but once Windows XP reboots there is no new partition.
Im trying to install Suse Linux 9.0. But I really want to have 2 new partitions, one for Suse, and the other as a back up.
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Apr 9, 2010
what are the steps to create partition using Paragon Manager?
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May 1, 2005
I had perfectly working PC with XP Pro installed on a 160Gb Maxtor HDD.For no reason I error checked the hard drive, which the system did after rebooting, at the end of the test the system rebooted and announced that there was a error on the boot and boot.ini.Useing XP Emergency (on disk) I tried fixmbr which did nothing then I tried Fixboot. XP found the drive identified it as FAT and said that it was successfully fixed.The drive was FAT and is now unusable.Partition Magic sees it as a FAT drive as does XP when I switched the HDD into another machine.
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May 3, 2006
Over a year ago when I setup my new system and before installing most of my APPS, I backed it up to a small HD. My Win Xp Pro MCE 2004 has become a little buggy (MY FAULT).How would I copy or clone the smaller HD over to my 80GB drive AND maintain the larger partitions? I have Ghost 2003 but I'm not sure if it permits me to set the partition size when copying HD's.
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Jan 31, 2007
I reinstalled my OS several months ago, and decided that I might want a dual boot in the future. I already had an old, smaller drive in the machine that's labeled the c: drive.
Reading one time that for security purposes it's good to have your OS on a drive other than C:, I decided to not alter the drive lettering.
I then partitioned a new internal hard drive into several logical drives. I formatted the D: partition as a Dos fat32 partition and the rest as NFTS partitions. Somehow, I allowed the D: partition to be the primary partition, while the E: partition which contains the Win 2000 Pro OS Winnt directory is a logical drive.
When I just checked disk management, I noticed that not only is boot.ini on the D: Dos partition, but so is ntldr along with the following Dos setup files:
ndetect.com
arcsetup.exe
arcldr.exe
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Feb 3, 2006
I'm running Xp Pro SP2 & I need to redo the system. I have 2 Samsung 80gb hard drives but only one is currently in use.
What would be the best way to set them up for system speed, reliability & ease of back ups?
What sort of partitioning software do people have experience with ?
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Feb 29, 2008
To reformat my computer now and i downloaded all the files i'd need to reformat and compressed them into a single rar file to put onto my d drive.
Although when i go to move theses filesonto my d drive i get a message saying: cannot copy "reformatfiles": There is not enough free disk space
Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again
Free space on this drive by deleteting old or unnecessary diles click disk cleanup.
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Sep 8, 2005
I've just resized a partition on my main physical drive, and the OS sees the adjacent partition as unfromatted.
I'm using Partition magic pro 7 and WinXp pro.
The partition I resized is the primary OS partition which is formatted as NTFS, the adjacent partition is FAT32. How can I get XP to recognise the FAT32 partition again?
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Jun 20, 2008
I decided to try Linux. 'Ubuntu' was my type selection. After trying by running off a CD I then decided that I would pick up some partitioning software like 'Partition Magic' or some software along that line to do the partition. But somewhere(s) I read that virtual or software partitions are less then a good idea for reasons I don't recall at the moment.
Is that true? If so, why and/or to what extent?
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Jan 5, 2008
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Jan 15, 2010
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when i open Partition Magic 8 i see my Maxtor 6Y120P0 drive in a yellow color and the file system marked as "other": but my Windows 2000 Disk Management shows healty:
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Feb 3, 2010
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Jun 2, 2005
A new hard drive for my computer and I am installing win2000 on it. When it come time to partition I cut my drive in half. Then windows proceded to format the first half and install the operating systme on it. It never asked me if I wanted to format the other half so I thought I could do that after. When I got to windows I did not see the other half of my drive. I would boot from my CD again and I could do it that way. Well I wasn't able to do it. How I can see my other drive and format it.
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Oct 5, 2005
I am about to wipe my h/d and do a clean install of XP. Master h/d is 40gig with a 160gig slave. What size partition should I make for the OS on master h/d?
Original set up had none, just 40gig. I am thinking 10 to 15 gig but someone told me that's far more than needed. I guess it isn't terribly important, just looking for input and opinions.
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May 4, 2006
how can a 2nd hard drive can be allocated? i says unallocated should i click New Partition?
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Jun 17, 2006
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Nov 12, 2006
I need to reformat but I don't want to back up everything to CD's, and I don't have a better solution, my friend reccomended I partition the drive, move backups to the second partition, and reformat the primary partition.
I was going to use Symantec's Partition Magic, but I see it costs quite a bit of $$, which I don't feel like spending on something I'm only going to use once. I was wondering if you guys would give your info on partitioning and telling me if this is even possible, and give me a good program to do so.
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