PC extremely slow and hangs up quite often

[ajayritik]

One more query. I currently have some data in one of the drives which I'm not able to take backup. Is it possible for me to partition my HDD in such a way that it doesn't delete the data from the drive. i.e. if I plan to increase my Primary Partition from 8 GB to say 20 GB wouldn't it lead to me having to delete the existing partitions or drives which may result in loss of data from the existing drives.

 

[sygeek]

Resizing partitions doesn't delete any data.

 

[topgear]

One more query. I currently have some data in one of the drives which I'm not able to take backup. Is it possible for me to partition my HDD in such a way that it doesn't delete the data from the drive. i.e. if I plan to increase my Primary Partition from 8 GB to say 20 GB wouldn't it lead to me having to delete the existing partitions or drives which may result in loss of data from the existing drives.

if you are using xp then you'll have to use some 3rd party HDD portioning tool to do that

 

[sygeek]

if you are using xp then you'll have to use some 3rd party HDD portioning tool to do that

diskmgmt.msc should do.

 

[topgear]

^^ are you sure we can resize partition by using xp's Disk Management without deleting a partition - it's not possible AFAIK.

 

[sygeek]

^^ are you sure we can resize partition by using xp's Disk Management without deleting a partition - it's not possible AFAIK.

Not sure man, but I should have mentioned that I don't even recommend it. Once I tried to delete a partition and it deleted rest of the three partitions along with it, I was lucky that I had a backup.

 

[ajayritik]

Ok Guys. Thanks to all of your suggestions. I'm all set with respect to OS installation, drivers etc. Due to frequent power cuts unable to finish the complete PC scan using Avast.
Will keep you posted in case I find any issues. PC looks much faster now.

Special thanks to sygeek,topgear,vineet and Sam

 

[thetechfreak]

Remember the more the Pc is shutdown inappropriately, the more error and slow Windows Xp. So my last reccomendation is to create a system restore point every time you turn on your pc so you can later restore it so that you dont feel after affect of inappropriate shut down.
Delete those points from time to time using Tune Up utilities

 

[ajayritik]

^^ Thanks for your suggestion!

Inappropriate shutdowns mostly happen when I leave the PC for downloads and go out and if there is a long power cut.