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Remind me... how you partition a HDD.


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I shouldn't be having to ask this, but for some reason im dumb at the moment and I have done this many times before, but a year ago was the last time i had to do it so i dont quite remember.

Im gonna make 4 partitions, so I make the Primary part, then I do which?:

Make Extended with the rest and, then make 3 logicles or just make 3 exteneds or 3 logicles?

I should know this, and expect its extended then 3 logicles, but i'd like 2nd opinions.

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Never liked Partition Magic, used it like 5 years ago and didnt like it, then last year my friend brough his copy over to try convince me its better then fdisk, I do the partitions, then a few hours later the HDD had a criticle crash and became scrap metal!

even if it was a coincidence, i dont got an extra 100$ to spend on that since fdisk also does the job well and is free! i just have a small lapse of memory about the exact procedure hehe :)

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yep good ol fdisk, you cant go wrong with ya trusty boot disk and fdisk, the menus in it are straight forwsard and it tells ya if ya cant do a certain operation and why, I had to do it the other day myuself in a long time.

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first you make the primary part, which you give the desired size. for example, i have a 40 gig HD and i set the primary part to 5 gb. so my C drive is 5 gb.

then you create the extended part, which takes up the rest of the space (in my case 35 gb). then you create logical drives within the extended partition and give them the desired size. these will become your D, E, F etc.

after this, reboot into dos and format every partition. :)

when you've created all partitions fdisk should give you a message saying there's no active partition selected. select the primary partition (C drive) as your active part. makes sense, huh? :)

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partition magic 7.0

make every partition primary.

also, u'll probably need fat32 for xp, not the crappy ntfs.

set one partition active, and boot from the cd after that.

anything lese?

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if you are installing 2K or XP, then i'd only create the primary, install the operating system and do the rest from disk management once 2K/XP was installed.

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Originally posted by crookram

bah @ you n00bs. :p

everyone knows l337 ppl use good old DOS.

j/k :D

Either that or really old d00ds! :)

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Originally posted by David_Lightman

Partition Magic 7 is what i use to partition and unpartition HDDs. Works alot faster and eaiser to use than a boot disk

Yep :)

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