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Partitioning a USB Drive
Name: adam73647 Date: December 29, 2005 at 23:16:06 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: athlon xp, 1gb
Comment:
I'm wondering if I can use something like Partition Magic to partition my usb drive that already has data stored. I'm building a new PC and didn't want to purchase a new hard drive, and I was going to use my external and put it in the computer. I want to leave what is on it though (100 gb). Since I don't have enough space on another HD to backup the 100 gigs I just wanted to partition.
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: December 30, 2005 at 00:32:40 Pacific
Reply:
adam73647, I'm not too sure just what you're saying. If you're talking about a partition on a new HD, then the answer's yes. If you create the partition, you can then transfer the data from your old hard drive onto the new with no problem. If, on the other hand, you want to create a partition on the old drive and not lose the data on the drive, dunno. Gut says no, but Partition Magic might be able to do it. Perhaps there's a program expert here who knows for sure. HTH. Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 2
Name: cnf Date: December 30, 2005 at 01:03:12 Pacific
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Hi, Acronis Disk Director should partition your external HDD. It's very relieble software for such act, as it has fool-proof windows wizard.
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Response Number 3
Name: Andrewj357 Date: December 30, 2005 at 06:43:26 Pacific
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I think partition magic will do it, but I wouldn't because I had a bad experience with PM before and it locked up my computer and it destroyed all data on two hard drives.
jablonskia@morejavagames.com
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: December 30, 2005 at 09:03:24 Pacific
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PM will do. Never once (since Powerquest first introduced it) did I ever had problems installing & using it to partition customers large internal and external HDs.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 5
Name: per Date: December 30, 2005 at 09:39:26 Pacific
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Just be sure you are using PM 8.0 or later. XP doesn't like the older versions.
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Response Number 6
Name: lukeles Date: December 30, 2005 at 17:30:57 Pacific
Reply:
you'd better backup your best important data before you partition it.
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