Hard Drive Question....

[hellah10]

I want to format my hard drive, but I dont wanna lose the thousands of MP3s that I have. My question is....Can I partition the hard drive without formatting it that way I can move everything to the other drive(partitioned) and format the drive with all the junk on it...

Thanks...

 

[Jamaica1997]

Hey hellah,

I will ask my brother in lae who runs the MSI department in a

major hospital here in OKC and will get back to you on Monday if that is ok??

Try to help if I can!!

 

[Palmetto Pimp]

hop on aim when you get a chance hellah
i dont think you can do what u wanna do but need some more info

 

[Rudy]

What you need to do is move all the files you want to keep to a zip drive or a CD before you repartition or reformat. Or you WILL lose your data.

 

[hellah10]

Jamaica - I REALLLY apreciate it...thank you much

njsf25 - :shrug: :shrug: didnt find ya

Rudy - But thats what Iam trying to avoid...I wanna partition without formatting

 

[redking]

Hella,

You can partition without reformating by using software called Partition Magic. However, I don't recommend this method because it's not very "clean". It might mess up your system to the point that you can't use it anymore!

I would suggest you copy ALL the files you need onto CD, do some backups and then just reformat. Reformatting you can partion your hard drive with Windows' built-in format command. Then you re-install Windows.

I know this is a lot of work...

Or you could get Partition Magic and just use that!

I agree with Ryson. System Commander is excellent too.

 

[hellah10]

It might mess up your system to the point that you can't use it anymore!

I think I`ll pass :lol: However, thank you for posting such information.

I think I`ll just copy all my stuff on CDs....looks like alot of CDs I`ll be using....oh well.

Thanks alot

 

[ryson]

Redking is on the right track, but Partion Magic is sketchy @ best, it works well for image restoring but not to well on the fly. The one I have used and never had any problems is system commander the link I have a laptop that has XP, 2K and Red Hat running on it with no problems partioning on the fly. I bought mine but just did a search on kazza lite and it's there.

 

[hellah10]

ryson - thank you sooooooooooo much. system commander worked like a charm

really appreciate your help....you saved me HOURS of work!!! THANKS!

 

[ryson]

glad I could help

take care