Thanks to Dave, Steve and others who have contributed to this thread. Bearing in mind what a computer shop is likely to charge for doing the job, I am beginning to think that purchasing Partition Magic myself might be the best option, even if I only use it rarely. Pity I didn't do so a few weeks ago when the exchange rate was better! Douglas On 24 Oct 2008 at 10:16, Dave Taylor wrote: > Hi, if you're going down that road, get them to back the whole thing up > and > reinstall everything from scratch on whatever partitions you want, it > should > improve performance quite a lot, and you shouldn't lose a thing if they > really back everything up. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 7:35 AM > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Partition Magic > > > Thanks for the warning about the serial number, Dave. After reading > steve's > message I can > see that buying it is the only reasonable option - and I would probably > only > use it once! > Perhaps I could get a local computer shopt to do the job! > > > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq