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    Best software to create a partition on a drive?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by basskiddanny, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. basskiddanny

    basskiddanny Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    Currently I have 1 80gb HDD, partitioned equally into 2 x 40GB. Is there any way to split one of these partitions in half again that is safe?

    I have partition magic 8 but to be honest I have found it very rocky in the past and once when converting a partition from FAT32 to NTFS (Acer comes formatted as FAT32 and they don't provide disks to do your own clean install), when I tried converting once it crashed and I had to start over.

    I want something reliable so I can split off 20GB from one of the partitions (Theres about 35gb Free space on the partition I want to split).

    Any advice? I'm going to backup my data first but just want to be safe
     
    basskiddanny, Jul 11, 2008
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  2. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Gparted is what I use.
     
    Thomas, Jul 11, 2008
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  3. Gregory

    Gregory disassemble?

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    I agree GParted is great. Free and I have never an an error.

    Download the lice CD here:

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

    Here is an instruction page (I haven't read it personally, as GParted is easy to figure out, but it looks like it includes all the important info):

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm

    Review these screen shots first so you know what to expect:

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
     
    Gregory, Jul 11, 2008
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  4. basskiddanny

    basskiddanny Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks guy Rep +1

    Looks like a great little piece of software.

    Dan
     
    basskiddanny, Jul 11, 2008
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