[HLUG] Hard drive partitioning

[george at dicenews dot com]

DRAT
I didnt to a defrag before i repartitioned,
does that mean my partitions are messed up all over the hard disk?
Will a defrag now tidy it up?



                   [george]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Hard drive partitioning


>I Would do a full system backup.(acronis rules)
> run scandisk and defrag your drive as well then do the install..
>
> If anything happens you will be safe.
>
> Dave
> On Thursday 28 February 2008 13:23:50 george at dicenews dot com wrote:
>> first backup to an external hard drive..
>>
>> second back up again...
>>
>> i use acronis from a pc cover disk,
>> i think the ubuntu install also repartitions
>> if you press the right button at the right time!
>>
>>
>>
>>                    [george]
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "daniel beer" <danielbeer2 at gmail.com>
>> To: "hereford lug" <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:58 PM
>> Subject: [HLUG] Hard drive partitioning
>>
>> > 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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