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Repartition HDD

Gamingphreek

Gamingphreek

Lifer
Im going to get a 74Gig Raptor around Christmas time but until then i want to silence my computer. Right now the fans are OK and i have a couple things coming that will help them out, however the real problem is my two HDD. They are both Ancient and noisy. I want to get rid of my old back up drive and just repartition the C: giving it aroun 1Gig. I have plenty of free space but i know windows doesn't have any support for partition resizing. Are there any free programs or trial programs that will let me do this. I cant reinstal because my XP disk has a scratch in it and wont let me format

(so i have to use a win98 boot up disk, format fat32 using Fdisk, boot into the XP setup, convert it to NTFS, then install missing a couple of files)

-Kevin
 
winxp needs atleast 5gb to breath in my experience, with all applications/drivers etc installed u don't want to run outa space.
 
Yeah i have enough space i just want to get rid of my second HDD, so i just want to take about 1 gig of free space from my primary drive. Is it possible.

-Kevin
 
I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. If you just want to increase the size of your current C partition by 1 GB, you may as well just back everything up and start clean... repartition and reformat everything. If you start resizing partitions with a software program you have pieces of partitions scattered across the physical disk, and that's not a very efficient way to partition. If part of the C drive is at the beginning of the drive, and another part of the C drive is at the end of the drive, if a file is fragmented and in both areas on the partition, you've just increased your seek time by quite a bit.
 
If you check the software forum there's a stickied thread with free applications to use in place of popular software you have to pay for, and I believe there's one listed that can resize partitions.
 
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
I cant reinstal because my XP disk has a scratch in it and wont let me format
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If you have a valid license key, you can buy XP installation disks online for about $5.
 
OMG the Partition Magic Software..... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Dowload DOS then install format make a new partition... AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH. Too much stuff and i dont want to format as i cant install WINXP until i can get another install disk.

But I have an idea and need opinions...

1. Go to My Computer select format on the C: and format it.

2. Load XP setup disk and just install bypassing the formatting as it is already done.

3. Now is where the problem comes... does anyone know anything about autofmt.exe .... because that is the file that i have to skip.... does it sound like it is important?

4. Then Im done...

Sound like a plan :-\

-Kevin
 
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
OMG the Partition Magic Software..... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Dowload DOS then install format make a new partition... AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH. Too much stuff and i dont want to format as i cant install WINXP until i can get another install disk.

But I have an idea and need opinions...

1. Go to My Computer select format on the C: and format it.

2. Load XP setup disk and just install bypassing the formatting as it is already done.

3. Now is where the problem comes... does anyone know anything about autofmt.exe .... because that is the file that i have to skip.... does it sound like it is important?

4. Then Im done...

Sound like a plan :-\

-Kevin
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You can't format the active partition in Windows, which is almost always C:
 
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