[HLUG] Hard drive partitioning

[george at dicenews dot com]

DONT JUST
> Take a full backup of all important stuff to a USB drive, CDs or DVDs 
> before starting, just in case...
>

copy everything to an external hard disk,
cos some important things are hidden
like outlook express address book and emails etc etc...

i use SyncToy in windows..

one day i'll learn how to use cobian
(and blender and linux and grub and....

                   [george]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at vintage-radio.com>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Hard drive partitioning


> If you are planning to install Linux in the freed space, you'll find that 
> many distros can do the partitioning change (without data loss) during the 
> installation.  You just have to take care through that part of the process 
> to make the right choices.  Ubuntu certainly does that.
>
> If you're not installing Linux there is probably a Linux live CD that 
> includes a utility to do this.  I don't know about that, but someone here 
> will!
>
> If you want to do it in Windows probably the best bet is to buy a copy of 
> Symantec/PowerQuest Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director (about £30).
>
> Partition changing does carry some risks, although 99% of the time it goes 
> fine.  Take a full backup of all important stuff to a USB drive, CDs or 
> DVDs before starting, just in case...
>
>
> daniel beer wrote:
>> Hello, I am sending this to find out if anyone knows how to partition a 
>> hard
>> drive on a windows XP laptop without having to reinstall all the files on 
>> it
>> afterwards?
>
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