partitions

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i have a vista sp1 ultimate on 750 gb HDD. i know that i can create only four basic disks. in order to create more from the extended one, all the partitions becomes dynamic. i read on the net that there is problem in reading dymanic HDD by some versions of windows and all there is problem in...

i just got hp pavilion 9550in yesterday when i click on my computer i can see 2 partitions c:(289 gb) and d: factory image(8.39 gb) my d partition has got a recovery file........ and windows vista is on c drive..... so i want to ask that if can create more partitions from my c drive and how...

ok i joined this forum for one reason only so i formatted my hard disk completely (all partitions) and installed xp msdn edition. now i had c,d,e,f partitions, i put in my apps in e. i formatted d drive HFS ;) so now e became d and f became e now my registry has gone super psychotic i...

Total Partition: 4 Shrink option available in all partitions but Extend,not available (Not Selected) So..can I extend one of my partition or not ?

Guys, I hv 2 HDDs a WD 160GB SATA & Smsng 80GB PATA. 80GB has 4 partitions 3 are 20GB & fourth is 14GB. Now wanna remanage partition i.e. 1st partition 40GB & 2nd 34GB. Is dis possible by partition magic? Or wht kinda software sud i use?

I have a 40 GB HDD and have 3 partitions which use all the space on the HDD and there is no free unpartitioned space on the HDD. One of the partitions has around 8GB free space on it, so I was planning to take out 5GB from it without harming the data on that partition and create a new partition...

I am a Windows XP User and am planning to shift to Ubuntu 8.04. I have a small clarification. When I install Windows my partitions are C:\ and D:\ , I keep all my data in D:/. In the event of the OS getting corrupted, I use Acronis True Image to restore my C:\ back. Now that I am comfortable...

Hi all , I have 5 partitions in my hard disk . All of them are formatted in NTFS .... I have installed XP Professional and Vista Ultimate on two partitions ..... Except these two partitions Compression is enabled on all the other partitions .... Now i want to enable compression on these two...

I have a problem with my PC. I wanted to repartition one of my drives(it was empty then) and so used PAragon Partition manager for the same. But during the process, a power shutdown occurred. After that the partition I worked on and 2 other partitions next to it got corrupted. The other...

hi everybody, am usin a lappy with the drive capacity of 160 GB...And my collections ranges from muic to documents to movies to documents to multiple OS...So,ive got myself more than 9 partitions (pretty insane I know !!!)...and one of my friend opined me to NOT to have so much of partitions...

long long time ago there was an article in an issue of Digit about how to partition ot ur 80 GB space on hard disk while installing windows , after a search in my big pile of old editions i m not able to found out the edition in which that article was :-( , so guys my query is : i had 160...

I have tried to install ubuntu 7.1 & 8.04 but each time installation goes well and at the end grub install failed.I have the followind HDD partitions Primary IDE 80GB ATA(no OS only data) Primary SATA 250GB sda1:WinXP SP2(primary 20GB) sda2:Win Vista(primary 20GB) sda3:trying to...

i am using ubuntu 7.10 Problem 1) when i am giving the command: sudo dpkg -i <any debian package>.deb it says dpkg: status database area is locked by another process what should i do? i even tried alien but the same error... Problem 2) Till yesterday everything was fine with my...

Hi ! Got a new Dell XPS M1530 (my bro's) some days back... Config: Intel C2D T7250@2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, nVidia M8600GT etc.... Its pre loaded with Vista Home Premium 32bit. Now, the partitions shown in Disk Management are:: 78MB - EISA Configuration, 10GB (Recovery D: ) - Primary...

Hey Digitized ppl!! I just bought a HP Pavilion DV6736NR the specs are.. (Detailed Specifications) AMD Turion 64X2 2.0ghz 2gb DDR2 250GB SATA NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M Vista home premium now, i have a few questions about it.. It has two partitions, 230gb(root) + 20gb(recovery). now i prefer...

Ive been using opensource softwares lyk openoffice.org before...but didnt step into the real thing,,,, the linux distros!!!! I tried some live cds which digit provided like dynebolic, slax, mint etc, and got fascinated by linux....so now i wanna get more deep into it.. im confused with...

hi! i hv installed opensuse 10.3. plz tell me how can i mount my other windows partitions and also get read/write access.

***HELP***I had a 40 GB HD with 5 partitions having windows 98 & windows XP pro OS & other data partitions. Last week I purchased a 160 GB SATA drive, tried to install OS in that. I installed Vista & XP Pro in that with 2 more data partitions. In the process of installing OS in SATA, the old...

hi... i have only one partition C: of 160 GB with vista installed.... vista's inbuilt disk management dont allow to partition C: because its a root partition... Partition Magic doesnot work on Vista... How can i have more (i want 4) partitions by redistributing the space in C: drive.... by the...