-=PCTechTalk=- Re: partition magic

1st recommendation is to clean up your drives, remove things you don't need.
2nd empty the recycle/trash bin
3rd run scandisk on all drives, or if you have it use NDD, because it's 
better.
4th install PM on the boot drive

you need to keep in mind what happens when you add/remove drive 
partitions with windows, the drive letters are subject to changing, most 
programs will fail if the drive letter changes, while PM has a mapper 
utility you will be better off to re-install those programs.

Assuming the 2 fat32 partitions are adjacent to each other I would 
recommend combining them 1st. If you boot form the fat32 partition 
changing it to NTFS might render it unbootable, however NTFS is better 
than fat32.

-Jim-


cris wrote:

>My system came very close to crashing saturday morning. I'm surprised I'm still
>here. My operating system hard drive was down to 8 kb of free space! hard to
>believe, I know. It wouldn't even allow me to delete files in certain 
>locations.
>A friend suggested I do a search for any files 1 gb in size to see what they
>were. I found 1, and deleted that file directly thru the search window. That
>brought me back to life!
>anyway - I've put off this combining of my partitions way too long. My son is
>burning his files now on the larger drive. I'm going to install partition magic
>this week and combine them. As I've NEVER even seen the program before, does
>anyone have any advice for me? I plan on installing it on the larger of the 2
>partitions. I also have a 3rd partition. The two I'm combining are FAT 32- the
>3rd is NTFS. At this point, I plan on leaving the NTFS partition alone.
>
>Someone suggested before that I convert these two to NTFS  - should I do that?
>
>I want to do the least threatening thing - as I really don't want to lose my
>program files. OH! I also have a Program folder on each drive - both named
>Program Files - both with programs installed in them. Will this cause me any
>problems?
>
>Cris
>
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