 help with HD partition, just got an external120gb |
 Apr 1, 2008 - 1:12 AM
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hi all. i just got an external hard drive for my lappy that i want to use as a back up drive. when i got the lappy the hard drive already had about 1/4th of it partitioned off as a backup. how do i un partition this and back up all the info to the external?
just incase anyone is wondering, i use windows XP and i have an HP Pavilion dv2000 and the external i got is a Western Digital 120 GB portable HD. any help is appreciated thanks --------------------  Call me a traitor! See if I care. ;) |
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Apr 1, 2008 - 1:46 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 16, '03 From Bay area Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
the 1/4 partition stores your windows CD.
So if you unpartition the hard drive you will no longer have your window cd to install a fresh copy onto computer. Also unpartitioning and making one big partition is a tricky task, there is no 100% way of doing it right. Some times it just wont work and corrupt your entire partition. |
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goferris help with HD partition Apr 1, 2008 - 1:12 AM
creis copying the oem partition is easy but I would leav... Apr 1, 2008 - 2:37 AM 95CelicaST Or you can just change the HDD over to Dynamic par... Apr 1, 2008 - 8:52 AM
k-weaver I would create a bootable floppy (or CD) (www.boot... Apr 1, 2008 - 10:18 AM |
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