Partitions

mrs-kat_2

Hi Everyone,
hope some one can help, My son has a computer that has partitions, can anyone tell me how to get rid of them?
He is running Windows 2000 pro.
Thanks in advance Jane

albertross_2

buy partition magic or download gparted, or wipe the whole disk and reinstall the o/s

bat999

Hi kat

You need to run a program such as Partition Magic. It's on a CD and you can move or remove the partitions on a hard drive. It costs about £40.

There's also a free GParted. With this you must download it yourself and burn your own CD.

With both these programs you need to mug up on them first, otherwise you might wipe out all of Windows 2000.:mad:

As albertross says, if you have the Windows disk, you can erase everything including the partition and start from scratch.

This is the website for GParted, if you're up for it.
Here:-http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php
:cool:

imho

Partition Magic is free. i just go look for it .

imho

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2167398/paragon-partition-manager-2005

There you go.scroll down that page to get your serial number.

bat999

imho wrote:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2167398/paragon-partition-manager-2005

There you go.scroll down that page to get your serial number.

Nice one imho, you are a moneysavingexpert :cool:

needaspirin

If he is prepared to spend £30 he could buy a Maxtor 80gb 7200 hard drive. He could slave it to his existing drive and use DiskWizard available from:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html to copy his existing drive contents to the new drive.

He would then change the jumpers on the 2 drives and boot from the new, faster drive. His old drive would be available as additional storage. The operating system and files would still be there on the old drive and could be swapped over at any time.

It is easier than it sounds and there are plenty of people on MSE to help if he has any questions.

Aiadi

imho wrote:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2167398/paragon-partition-manager-2005

There you go.scroll down that page to get your serial number.

Download link not working for some reason

imho

Aiadi,keep trying ,its only that the web site is busy.Its always slow on that web page.when it is downloading,go back a page and click on the link for the serial number.

imho

If i was you i would just get the serial number for it now .Then download the program later.It looks like everyone and their mother is downloading it at the moment !

bat999

Yeah Aiadi, you stay in and download it later.

We'll all be down the pub:beer: :beer: :beer:
:rotfl: