partitions

Guys....... Help needed very badly !!!!!!! I have 3 Partitions in my Seagate 40 GB hard-disk.. C: 10GB,D: 10GB,E: 20GB... i use E: for storing all my data (Music,Movies,documents..etc...)... Few days ago I formated my C: drive which had windows in order to reinstall it.. But when i...

HEy guys, i need your help Whats the best way of partitioning a 300 Gb drive ?? I mean, i hate too many partitions and i am keeping aside 15 gb for Linux. So now, whats the best way of partitioning it ?? How many partitions shud i create ? What size ? Thanks....... and...

Is it possible to disallow access to certain partitions on the HDD on a PC with shared access? The admin(in case of Win XP) should be able to view it but no other account should have access to these drives.

Windows distinguishes each and every partitions and devices using alphabets (A: C: D: E: etc..). My question here is "Is there a limit to how much such logical drives it can address, say Z:"? Lets suppose I got a 500 GB HDD, some 20 partitions, a DVD combo, thumb drive, card reader, etc.. will...

Hi friends, I was thinking that when we make partitions on a HDD , are they made physically or logically????I mean is our HDD physically divided into partitions ??? I was thinking this because I noticed that when we move data within a partition , it occurs instantly but when we move data to...

hi! am using FedoraCore5, p3 733 mhz system wid 256 MB ram, to hdds 20 gb samsung as master and 80 gb samsung as slave. 80 gb hdd has 4 partitions : 3 of 19.5 gb and 1 of 15.6 gb (all formatted in fat32 filesystem) now when i type fdisk -l at terminal i get only one partition listed...

There are a couple of softwares that allow you to do that. Here are some of them Explorer2fs --- reads ext2/ext3 partitions *uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm YAReG -- reads reiser partitions *yareg.akucom.de/ There is another one that claims to read...

I have some stuff ;) on a few partitions on my PC which I don't want others to access. Is there a way to lock the partition in such a way that it can only be accessed by me? Plz help.

I have 4 partitions in my 80 gb hdd each 18.6 gb c-- win 98 d-- win xp e-- files f-- linux can i resize the partitions and create more partitions out of these using partition logic or other such tools? or do i have to uninstall the OSes before doing that?

i have a single hard disk with four partitions C:,D:,E: & F: with 20 GB capacity each & Windows XP Pro SP2 installed in C: drive. I have installed Fedora Core 4 in F: drive. Now i want to access my windows partitions (Fat32) from Fedora. Please tell me how i should go about it. I have gone...

i have a dual boot up system with the following configuration:- win 98 & win xp 40 gb hard disk with 4 partitions intel pentium 4 processor 2.4 GHz motherboard speed 512 MB RAM the problem with my pc is that when i try booting with win xp, the computer says: "missing or corrupt...

one fine day trying to save space i just allotted only 4.xgb for win xp home. now it is always low on space while other partions have plenty of it. any software to change the partitions without formatting? dont want to format.

Hello all.. I need a quick help.. I have alloc 5GB for C Drive (Windows).. But this is not enough and so my sys hangs a lot.. I hv another Partition of 5 GB and i like to merge the 2 Partitions and make it to 10 GB.. I think then the sys runs fast.. cos i use Adobe PS and it takes a lot of...

well, i have a 40gb hard disk with 10 partitions. except for G:, F: and C: everything is ntfs. I have important data in these three partitions so i can't format. how can i convert it into ntfs without formatting? also, what is a dynamic drive? please help...

well my partiotion structure is more or less same as was given 2 years ago by my vendor !!!!! i can change partitions a bit using xp cd , i mean can murge or saperate 2 adjoining partitions only , but i need to have multiple changes , i try to use fdisk , but is not provided in xp ...

I have read all the posts about FAT32 to NTFS conversions. However I still have doubts I use Windows XP, I have 5 partitions on a 160 GB HD. C: 18.63 GB D: 33.12 GB E: 32.59 GB F: 32.96 GB G: 31.71 GB I want to make DVDs into ISOs on my computer and as you know FAT32 only allows 4GB...

I have a 80GB HDD which has 3 partitions 30GB,30GB,20GB I had trouble with my system so I decided to format it. I tried many things but I couldn't format my C drive So I installed Windows XP on D: & thought I could format the C: deive from this installation. I couldn't. Next I...

i have partitioned my 160 GB HDD as 10:10:40:40:10:20:1.have loaded Win 2k in the first 10 GB .Went to partition the unallocated space using the Windows start up disk .But by mistake ,Win 2k proceeded to install itself in 1 of the newly created partitions .now its showing a dual boot option ...

i have an 80 gb hard disk with 4 partitions. have windows 98 installed on drive c and xp on d. there is lots of data in e and f. now i want to get rid of 98. i want xp to be installed on drive c. what is the procedure for this puropose so that i dont have to format drive e and f . plz help

Hello Friends! I have five partitions on my HDD with a dual OS i.e Win XP in c: and Win 2K in D: To do this I first installed Win 2K in D: and then installed Win XP in C: Is it possible to have Win XP in both the partitions following the above mentioned procedure. If not, is there any...