Arpit Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 ...what is the best/safest way to create partitions *after the computer is formatted*...and using what?? ...and *ahem*...how? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 freeza Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 windows XP/2000 can make partitions in administrative tools>computer management Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 VanAlex Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 Partition Magic is the best tool by far, altough the latest version doesn?t support volumes yet, it is still the safest and easiest way to go in my opinion. Supports FAT 16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT, etc, converting primary to logical, converting file formats, etc.......very very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Arpit Posted January 26, 2002 Author Share Posted January 26, 2002 Cool...but I'm talking about setting up the partitions after the computer's formatted, so there's nothing there....*I've heard that that's when it's safest to set the partitions* ...and again, how? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 freeza Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 yup i'd go with partition magic too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Stingray Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 You?ll have to setup some boot disks with Partition Magic. Which implies that you?ll have to have the program installed in some OS before formatting the hard disk. I?m not sure if I made myself clear.:paranoid: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Boeing 787 Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 I have personally used Partition Magic and think it really sucks. It is very error prone and has screwed up a few of my partition so bad I had to reinstall. STAY AWAY! I went back to using the very reliable Partition Commander by V. I used it for two years without a glitch should have just kept using it instead of messing with PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 VanAlex Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 I use partition magic almost every week and had no problems with it yet, but I have to try that commander suff also, can?t get too much solutions for a problem. In relation to the origianl question, partition magic can resize partitions that are allready set, from within the OS, no need for boot disks in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Arpit Posted January 27, 2002 Author Share Posted January 27, 2002 yeah i heard about that...*changing partitions from within the OS without having to format*...but someone told me it's better to do it after formatting...it's like do a clean install of windows, as opposed to upgrading it from some previous version... ..any opinions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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...what is the best/safest way to create partitions *after the computer is formatted*...and using what??
...and *ahem*...how? :)
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