John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Tue Feb 19 00:28:48 CST 2008
Hi Rocky, I think I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. Arthur's advice is spot on. You do not need to keep this partition if you have the CDs/DVDs that came with the PC. Its just waste space - especially so since most manufacturers size that partition _way_ too large. The manufacturers generally include the restore disks in that partition but were forced to include disks a few years ago too. Some manufacturers include a feature to perform backups or snapshots which periodically record your main partition to this recovery partition. But if the disk goes bad none of it matters cause its just a partition. It's a silly concept in all. If they had included two separate hard drives it would make some sense. Take your time and read the directives and I'm sure you'll do fine. Best of luck, John B. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:50 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Partition Magic Make a copy of the backup partition too. Then resize it, placing the space freed before it not after it. That will let you resize the c:\ partition to include the space lying between the two partitions. Arthur On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software < rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Somebody here, I think, knows how to work Partition Magic. I loaded > it but got a little stumped. I suppose I could read the tutorials but > I'm a little nervous about this. > > What I want to do is take that backup partition dell gave me, which is > 17GB and either reduce it to 1GB and put the other 16 into the big > partition, or maybe just merge the whole 17GB into the big partition. > > I know there's a correct sequence of steps. I'm going to Ghost my hard > drive during dinner tonight, and see if I can't figure this out. > > Any help gratefully accepted. > > TIA > > Rocky > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com