Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
add partition
Name: just me Date: September 1, 2002 at 10:45:57 Pacific
Comment:
i have win me installed,can i create another partition to install XP on? and how do i do it
Name: wawadave Date: September 1, 2002 at 19:53:27 Pacific
Reply:
hello if you use partion magic you can create a partion with out loseing data. the other methoud is to use fdisk with boot disk but this metoud will delete alldata on hd. have a nice day
p.s spy ware free i-mesh can be d/led on my home page
0
Response Number 2
Name: Morris Date: September 4, 2002 at 08:14:00 Pacific
Reply:
wawadave is right...fdisk will remove all existing data, which I believe is not in your plans. Another piece of software to consider is system commander 7, which I have used to re-partition an 80gb drive, including moving 20gb of data. sc7 has many capabilities worth exploring.
Summary: i have used partition magic 5 ( and tried 6) to add partitions to disks on 2 of my pc's and 2 laptops at various different times. all is well until i load on norton utilities. i have only recently fou...
Summary: I am not worried about the file sharing,I just want to install XP without losing the current set up for ME.I just got ms backup off the MEcd and was going to back up the entire hard drive.I am trying ...
Summary: Just to add, I've booted into Linux and fdisk'd there. It seems that what used to be my primary Windows partition is now of the type "hidden fat16". Anyone know how to change this back to normal fat16...
0 
