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Like the title says, I want to repartition my hard drive. I read threads about people partitioning a smaller amount just for the operating system, which is what I want to do. I rushed too quickly through those steps and ended up partitioning half and half, which I dont want. So what is the easiest way to repartition the drives?
Thanks for any help!
I used Acronis Partition Expert and it was really easy.
Make sure you back up the whole drive in case something goes wrong.Acronis is not free. Another good program is Partition Magic, also paid. I tried free programs that required to boot from USB stick or drive and then use some program under linux. It didn’t work out cause I could not boot from the USB drive. Then I used Acronis and no problem.
I used Ubuntu, and the disk manager in that will allow you to partition and repartition your drive. Much better than anything that comes in Windows or OS X! Oh and as for having to install Ubuntu, which is something i didnt want to do, i ran it from the disk. This allows you to use Ubuntu in full without changing anything on your hard drive. (Unless your partitioning obviously!)
Joe
I use Paragon Partition Manager and it works great. Nice user interface, easy to use options and overall a great piece of software.
There is a Paragon Partition Manager Express on download.com that says it’s free but who knows. Another free one is
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
Havent tried it though.
Download SystemRescueCD (actually a bootable Linux) and install it to a USB stick as per the instructions available on the web site. Boot to the stick, and you can use GParted to repartition your drive. I’ve done this with many laptops for a variety of reasons. Free, too.
Cheers.
sorry if this is a dumb question, but if you re-partition the hard drive, do you lose the content?
i.e. if it is split into “c” & “d” & you put it back to one partition, “c” do you lost the content of “d”
Thanks@pat-w
If you are just resizing then you can keep the content.In the case of converting c & d into one partition you would probably delete d and then enlarge c to fill up the empty space. In that case you would loose the contents of the d partition.
Whenever you fiddle with the partitions make sure you have a backup, it is very easy to loose your files.
So after reading some things, a lot of people are making the C drive the smallest they can, just for the operating system, and putting the rest into D for their files.
Would you guys also recommend this as one of the best ways to partition the drives?
It’s not a bad principle to work on 🙂
If you later change your mind – you can always change the partitioning of your drive
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So after reading some things, a lot of people are making the C drive the smallest they can, just for the operating system, and putting the rest into D for their files.Would you guys also recommend this as one of the best ways to partition the drives?
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Having a small C partition for Windows + applications and a larger D partition for documents is a good way of working.There is the other opinion that it’s better to just have one large partition, that way you don’t have any problems if you suddenly decide to install a few large programs and fill up your C partition, etc…
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@pat-w
If you are just resizing then you can keep the content.In the case of converting c & d into one partition you would probably delete d and then enlarge c to fill up the empty space. In that case you would loose the contents of the d partition.
Whenever you fiddle with the partitions make sure you have a backup, it is very easy to loose your files.
[/quote1233884246]Thanks for explaining that 🙂
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[quote1233879398=Machomt]
So after reading some things, a lot of people are making the C drive the smallest they can, just for the operating system, and putting the rest into D for their files.Would you guys also recommend this as one of the best ways to partition the drives?
[/quote1233879398]
Having a small C partition for Windows + applications and a larger D partition for documents is a good way of working.There is the other opinion that it’s better to just have one large partition, that way you don’t have any problems if you suddenly decide to install a few large programs and fill up your C partition, etc…
[/quote1233898136]=) which would you prefer? =P
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