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Can I partition a hardrive with an exsisting OS.

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Name: Steven
Date: February 26, 2000 at 19:55:55 Pacific
Subject: Can I partition a hardrive with an exsisting OS.

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I have been researching this particular issue to some extent and need to know if I can partition my hardrive(20GB) into other drives even though I already have Win98 installed? Do I need to format? Is there some way of doing this without killing everything?

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Response Number 1

Name: Benoit
Date: February 26, 2000 at 21:48:18 Pacific

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Hi Steven,
You can definately partition a hard drive with data on it. You have to use PartitionMagic by Power Quest that you can find at http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
I used it and it works very well...

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Response Number 2

Name: wong
Date: February 27, 2000 at 07:28:03 Pacific

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Do you have a win98 CD, or a win98 bootable rescue disk (created during the installation)? If you do, use it to boot from CD (set BIOS to boot from CD first), or boot off drive A: (floppy disk), then run FDISK. Select "Y"es for "Large Harddisk" option and you should be able to partition the new HDD. The FDISK has a menu system and is very intuitive. Should you get lost, post another message and we will try to help.

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Response Number 3

Name: Fogar
Date: February 27, 2000 at 08:44:13 Pacific

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Still I haven't much experience about NLE.
I'd like to use also Internet and other programs with my PC.
Will I have some problems?
Could you tell me about HD partition of the OS?
I need some simple but detailed news?
I thank you very much.
Fogar

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Response Number 4

Name: skwok
Date: February 27, 2000 at 22:59:52 Pacific

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USE PARTITION MAGIC 4.0 PRO. IS EASY TO DO IT. JUST CLICK AND RESIZE YOUR PARTITION WITHIN A SECOND.

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