-=PCTechTalk=- Re: partition questions
- From: Jim <n1jmm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:53:51 -0500
this is easy to do using partition magic, hard to do otherwise.
partition magic will allow you to resize, move, create, remove, shuffle,
convert the partitions in any order, you can even change between primary
and logical drives now and change formats now all without backing up
(recommended you backup first, but, I've used it for years and never
lost a bit).
If you don't have to use MAX Blast or any other DDO then you should back
up everything you want to keep and remove the maxblast and or any other
DDO's and then start fresh.
As for burning everything to CD's, burn it in smaller groups using
either NERO or your favorite burn program. ZIP things first. DON'T burn
accross multiple CD's unless your experienced in that method and
confident it will work when it comes time to restore the files. Just
remember that any files restored directly from the CD to the HDD will
have the READ-ONLY property set, by ZIPing them first you can retain the
properties and only the ZIP file will have the readonly set but you
won't care about that as you can unzip directly from the CD to the HDD
no need to copy the ZIP's from the CD to the HDD.
-Jim-
nightsneak1 wrote:
>This is the scenario:
>
>My hard drive was going bad. Ordered a replacement, and due to the holiday,
>it took a few more days. I received the hard drive, and was too busy with
>work to do what I wanted to do in the first place, which was to cut down my
>partitions and start with a clean slate, although saving my years of
>documents and downloads and email. The hard drive arrived, and since I had
>no time to do what I wanted to, and also due to mail volume and needing to
>clear the messages off my server, I made the one going bad a slave, and used
>the MaxBlast to just copy it to the new one. I now want to do my original
>plan, which is to cut down the number of partitions that I have, and clean
>up my 'puter.
>
>I tried Norton Ghost before, and DriveImage, but they did not work. I now
>have time to back up stuff to CD. Many things do not conform to the Joliet
>Standards as per Nero, but I seem to be able to save most of the stuff, by
>either zipping or raring them.
>
>I tried OE backup..., errors, I tried DirectCD....., errors. acckkk...
>
>My questions are:
>
>If I use either the MaxBlast again, or Partition Magic, how do I set up the
>saved stuff to a partition that is larger now than I have set up?, allowing
>me to have handy the stuff that I want to put on the new hard drive.
>
>Is there a CD burning program to save across CD's?
>
>MY OE is so far out of range, I would love to copy only the 200 some empty
>folders to it and leave the mega folders in a store file that I can access
>later. Basically, I want to save all the messages in the old stuff, but
>import the empty folders into OE.
>
>I am sure that I have more parameters, but this will do for a start ;-P
>
>nightsneak
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