-=PCTechTalk=- Re: I Want To Try Something A Little Different!!
- From: "Hal Cardona" <hcardona@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:28:01 -0500
If your using XP save yourself a headache and buy ghost or Drive Image.
Hal Cardona
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Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: I Want To Try Something A Little Different!!
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From: "Hal Cardona" <hcardona@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: I Want To Try Something A Little Different!!
>
> You will need to partition the drive prior to formatting it. You
> can't copy the swap file while it is in use, so make sure you exclude
> it while copying.
How do I do that?
>
> After you have your stuff on the larger drive and have placed as
> Master, boot from a OS floppy (I am assuming Win 9.X here) and from
> the a:/ run sys c:. Now run fdisk and set the new 80 GB partition as
> active.
It XP, if that makes a difference?
>
> Personally though I would keep the OS on small partition (8 to 16 GB)
> and use the rest as a plain partition for Video. Remember if you are
> using a FAT based OS you are limited to a max file size of 4GB, which
> isn't all that big when you are doing video.
4gb is fine for what I need, and even then I can go bigger with a cute
little workaround!!
I'd like to keep the 8 gig there to solve all these problems, but I'm
screwed really!!
Cheers
Andy
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