Help - Partitioning Drives

Greensprout

Morning..

I've recently bought a new PC which is running on Vista, I'm wanting to partition the drive to create seperate 'safe' partitions for my music etc.

I would normally use Partition magic but it's not compatible with Vista.

Is there another kind of software that does the same thing that is user friendly?

Thanks..
Scott

spakkker

Have a look at CPM on here http://majorgeeks.com/downloads8.html there may be others, I have xp myself and haven't tried them.

espresso

This page may help.

Jon_S_4

ive never understood why people would partition a drive. even if you partition the drive its still the same drive, just part of it is given a different drive letter.

I would recomend buying an external hard drive for your music or just get another drive and install it to your new pc.

LuciferTDark

I'm not too sure you can have anything "safe" on a machine crippled with Vista, you'd be better off wiping the harddrive & upgrading to XP.

Greensprout

Jon_S wrote: »

ive never understood why people would partition a drive. even if you partition the drive its still the same drive, just part of it is given a different drive letter.

I would recomend buying an external hard drive for your music or just get another drive and install it to your new pc.

Generally if a drive gets corrupt it's the C:\ drive, this way all my files will be saved on other parts so should I need to format I'd only have to format C:\ leaving my other partitions safe.

Greensprout

LuciferTDark wrote: »

I'm not too sure you can have anything "safe" on a machine crippled with Vista, you'd be better off wiping the harddrive & upgrading to XP.

I thought I'd give Vista a go, get used to it before everyone makes the swap over.

Don't worry though I still have my old XP machine if needs be

BillScarab

Greensprout wrote: »

I thought I'd give Vista a go, get used to it before everyone makes the swap over.

Don't worry though I still have my old XP machine if needs be

Vista is fine. You may even find you like it! :eek:

Greensprout

BillScarab wrote: »

Vista is fine. You may even find you like it! :eek:

I've been using it for a couple of days now and to be honest I am liking it..
Not had any real problems just one or two programs that aren't compatible yet.

At this rate i won't be going back to XP

It seems to me that the people that have most to moan about it haven't actually given it a chance.

LuciferTDark

I dual booted XP & Vista for a while but after not firing it up for 2 months I scrapped it & stuck with XP, Vista looks nice but I just don't want all the extra security rubbish Microsoft put in to "protect" me.

spakkker

Hi greensprout , just a suggestion, which I've only recently learned, is to make an image of the installed o.s with the necessary progs installed. I used acronis but I think there are free progs. The image is put on the other partition and the whole lot can be re-installed in 5 MINS. -far easier than fresh install. Acronis actually compresses the image and it may well be only 2 gb.