[pchelpers] Re: unable to partition drive


Cyril Halbach wrote:
> Billyus Eximius wrote:
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>> Hello all, had an horrendous time this last 2 weeks, my ISP had a fault and 
>> I was unable to connect to the net since the 3rd of this month till now. It 
>> is amazing just how much we use the net but don't notice till we don't have 
>> it.
>> Anyway, now that I do have it back I need to ask a question concerning a 
>> friend's PC
>> It's a Dell and has a 160 gig Hdd (why they think someone needs a C drive 
>> this big is beyond me), This drive is split into or has a couple of very 
>> small hidden partitions for restoring the PC to it's original factory state.
>> He recently had some problem that needed the restore discs using and of 
>> course being an IT dimwit, did so and wondered why he lost all his stored 
>> files................No he didn't think to back them up either then or long 
>> before this.
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>> I suggested that we should partition his big C drive into 40 gig to run his 
>> OS and other programs, leaving the vast majority of the HDD to store future 
>> files, and should the problem occur again, he could use his restore discs 
>> with impunity and not loose files again.....(I have convinced him too that 
>> he buy an external HDD as a backup)
>> I installed Partition magic 8 but the Dell PC won't let me partition the 
>> HDD..............WHY? and how can I overcome this?
>>
>> Billy 
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> Billy,
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>  If he ever hs to do a restore again 
> it will restore the whole physical drive. 
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This is complete and utter bull. It will only restore the partition the 
operating system is on.

Later, Ray Parrish
>     Cy
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