-=PCTechTalk=- Re: partition questions
- From: "nightsneak1" <nightsneak1@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:10:06 -0500
Trevnal,
It sounds like it should work perfectly. I have to go to work, but I will
try it tomorrow night when I get home. Thanks again for all your help.
nightsneak
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevnal" <trev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:56 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: partition questions
|
| total size free space
| c: 4.75GB
| d: 4.74GB
| e: 4.74GB
| f: 4.74GB
| g: 10GB
| H: 40.1GB
|
|
| Okay NightSneak, let the fun begin.
|
| First you need to make a list of what files you want to end up on what
| drives for the end of this, as there is no way to do easily what you want,
| as in just changing drive letters and getting the bigger drives.
|
| You will need to remove your swap file in windows, so it is just on the C
| drive. To be honest it is not a good idea to make a partition for the
swap
| file on the same hard disk ,as it makes it slower and does not do what you
| were trying to do. (How much ram and what OS are you using?)
|
| First off empty all you can of the H and I drives, but you can use and
leave
| the J drive as is now. This will eventually become the G drive, but its
| drive letter is slowly going to head that was as we go.
|
| Once you have moved all files out of the H and I drives, you can run
| Partition magic, either as a boot disk or as the full program from
Windows.
| What ever you do, do not use the format option. you only need delete and
| resize.
|
| Now you are using partition magic, delete the H and I drives completely,
| this leaving you a big empty space. Now you can make the 40gig partition
by
| resizing the last partition on the right of the image. You should then
also
| be able to move / resize the G drive along, using move, and make it a
10gig
| next to
| the 40gig partition. his should now leave a little piece of unused disk
| space.
|
| Reboot the machine and let all the above happen.
|
| Now empty out the F drive totally.
|
| Reopen Partition magic now. Delete the empty F drive.
|
| Now move the E drive up also, and make it a 10 gig drive also, again using
| the move / resize function only.
|
| Reboot the machine and then do the same for the C and D drives, each one
in
| turn.
|
| This will now give you your 5 drives you want, and each should be as close
| to
| the size you want, as I don't think you will get exactly 10's and a 40 GB
| drive.
|
| If this is not enough information to help you, please tell me, so I can
try
| to explain it more and if need be if you are happy, send you some pictures
| to your private address also. Then you can follow what you need to do.
|
| Trevnal
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