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Geek Culture / about harddrives?

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HowDo
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Posted: 14th Apr 2007 19:28
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Hi All

How do you put a file on to another partition when you have no way of getting to it.

Or I don't know how to get at it.

as one partition has lost a file and if I can put it back it might boot from there again.

one partition work ok the other is a no go.

ps no 3.5 drive just dvd drive.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 14th Apr 2007 19:32 Edited at: 14th Apr 2007 19:38
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Linux on a CD boot. Knoppix is supposed to be good for giving access to stuff for fixing.

in XP
start -> settings -> control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management

on < XP
boot floppy or F5 boot to DOS
c:fdisk.exe or fdisk.com (if memory servers me correct) might find it under c:dos or c:command or c:windowssystem if it dont run from c:

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Josh
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Posted: 14th Apr 2007 19:33 Edited at: 14th Apr 2007 19:33
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Always have a copy of PartitionMagic 8 available, very handy! Shame they don't make it anymore.


Quote: "start -> settings -> control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management

will normaly let you delete / restart a partition."


Isn't that 2000 Pro and XP Pro only?

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Posted: 14th Apr 2007 19:39
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ok, another question, if you have two OS on your drive how do you remove one of them if it gone all wrong and won't let you use it.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 14th Apr 2007 19:42 Edited at: 14th Apr 2007 19:47
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Reformat the drive, or if you cannot do that delete the partition, recreate the partition, then format it.

Sometimes there maybe a bootstrap file you can edit. I think under windows OS it's called boot.ini

try this link for some examples of editing the boot.ini

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

Sample Boot.ini File

This is a sample of a default Boot.ini file from a Windows XP Professional computer.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect


This is a sample of the above Boot.ini file with a previous installation of Windows 2000 on a separate partition.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

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