Partitioning W/ Partition Magic

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Antix · #1 Post by **Antix** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:15 am

I have Patition Magic v8.0. I have it on my second drive because I want to make a seperate partition on my 120 GB drive for programs so if windows gets screwed I didn't have to re-install everything. Anyway, I wanna give windows like 20GB of space, is that enough? Then leave the rest of the drive open for programs and files.

Anyway it kinda shows that I can't create a new partition, so do I just do the resize/move? I'll get some screen shots ASAP so you get what I'm trying to explain.

#2 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:19 am

i tried like 3 times on 2 comps to enlarge and minimise the windows partition, always failed

Antix · #3 Post by **Antix** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:22 am

Then how can I add a partition? lol.

#4 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:25 am

.. dunno, try it. i tried on laptop with 20GB HD.. as one partition/... tried giving the win down to 8GB, failed.. just like all my other tries..

Antix · #5 Post by **Antix** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:03 am

Which action do I want? Please be specific, eg: Pick a Task - Resize a partition. You get the idea.

And why does it give me the 'Pick a Task...' option to 'Craete a new partition', but 'Partition Operations' does not? Is there a difference between 'Create Partition' and 'Create a new partition'?

If you would like screen shots of any of the options let me know.

#6 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:45 am

i right clicked on the partition, did resize from there. basicly made C smaller, then take the unallocated and make a new partition. it doesnt really do ANYTHING until you click Apply

2005 · #7 Post by **2005** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:27 am

Even if you do lose your windows youll have to reinstall all those programs anyways as there registry entries will be gone.

Q12321 · #8 Post by **Q12321** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:43 am

palmboy5 wrote:i tried like 3 times on 2 comps to enlarge and minimise the windows partition, always failed

Heh, I just resized my Windows one today. Worked fine. Basically, Windows doesn't need more than 5GB, ever.

#9 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:48 am

(5 years later, Service Pack 3743)

Antix · #10 Post by **Antix** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:34 am

lol...

Well, I gave Windows appx. 20 GBs. I finnally got it to work after toyin' with it for quite a while. And I could backup registery, although, the programs I've installed so far to the new partition (H) don't put anything on 'C', except for something like reg. keys, that is until I got to installing Norton Internet Security Pro 2004. It was going to install it to 'H' and shared files to 'C'. So now I'm just gonna put Windows and all of the programs on 'C', I hope that 20 GB is enough space...

Guest · #11 Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:54 pm

If you don't play many games, 20GB is fine.

#12 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:07 pm

*downloads a lotta movies* yes what?

lol true though... my laptop's 20GB is plenty im gonna keep it clean this time.

Antix · #13 Post by **Antix** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 1:03 am

Well I just resized it to 49.9 GBs. I was off by.1 when I typed in the resize. But that's enough. I only resized it because of all of the programs I put on here. I don't like to have to put in a disc whenever I wanna use something in MS Office and other apps.

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Partitioning W/ Partition Magic

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