Partition question
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Partition question
I have an old Quarterdeck product called "Partition it". It was designed for win 3.1 and 95. Can I use this old program on win 98 SE?
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I personally do not partition. The Disk operating system could care less where data is, and partitioning could cause a problem later on if you fill up a partition and then either do not have room for what you want to save or you have to use a different partition.
I did partition an external USB connected hard drive and was going to put music on one partition, have another for some other use and another for backups. However, I ran into a space problem with the backups and wound up redoing the drive and making it one big drive and that eliminated my problem.
I did partition an external USB connected hard drive and was going to put music on one partition, have another for some other use and another for backups. However, I ran into a space problem with the backups and wound up redoing the drive and making it one big drive and that eliminated my problem.
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Well, since at least one partition is required, the book is technically correct - a partition is the way to go, because without at least one, it ain't gonna' work. But, I don't bother with multiple partitions anymore either. Years ago when I first discovered what partitions were, I played around with them some, but the novelty wore off. Partition maintenance is one added headache I can easily do without.
Anytime I have a bona fide need for a totally discrete area to park data, I just mostly add another drive. I'm up to five of them at present, not including the CDROM/DVD drive. The biggest one is a 1.5 terabyte drive, in RAID 0, but it's all just "Drive H:" to me.
Anytime I have a bona fide need for a totally discrete area to park data, I just mostly add another drive. I'm up to five of them at present, not including the CDROM/DVD drive. The biggest one is a 1.5 terabyte drive, in RAID 0, but it's all just "Drive H:" to me.
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OK Fellas......thanks for the information. Now for the whole story.
I installed a new HD and (mostly) followed a magazine article on how to make partitions using fdisk. I must have missed the part about making a 2nd partition because when I got done there wasn't any. Now I know the importance of it because my new 120 GB drive only has 3 GB that I can use!
My plan is to try "Partition It" as Jack suggested and if that doesn't work I'll just format and reload everything into 1 partition as the rest of you do.
Thanks a million guys...........Ed
I installed a new HD and (mostly) followed a magazine article on how to make partitions using fdisk. I must have missed the part about making a 2nd partition because when I got done there wasn't any. Now I know the importance of it because my new 120 GB drive only has 3 GB that I can use!
My plan is to try "Partition It" as Jack suggested and if that doesn't work I'll just format and reload everything into 1 partition as the rest of you do.
Thanks a million guys...........Ed
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Ed;
Read this Microsoft article and follow all instructions, in the order presented, for the Filing Table of your choice, using the MS-DOS FDisk commands: How to Partition a Master Hard Disk
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Read this Microsoft article and follow all instructions, in the order presented, for the Filing Table of your choice, using the MS-DOS FDisk commands: How to Partition a Master Hard Disk
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