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phil17
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 17:24
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I was going to set up a Dual partition on my HD, but my friend said he had to format first so I was looking around for some software and foundhref]http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/?source=uk_google&ad=partition+software&s_scid=partition%20software|947361894&gclid=CJSbrqqAtZECFQgsQwodaCnhfQ[/href]
Is there any other way to do this without losing data? and is the disk director a good product?

thanks

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bitJericho
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 17:40
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Uh, the OS installer will format the HDD for you :/

You plug it in, put in your OS installer, and install on the second hard drive, allowing it to format for you. Depending on the OS, you may need to do some further work to get the dual booting part to work.


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phil17
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 17:54
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I want to keep the information dual partition without loss of data.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 17:57
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what second os (if any) are you installing?


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Mr Z
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Well, what I have heard gparted is good at this. You can create an live-cd from which you can boot when the computer start and then manipulate your partitions from the cd. Just defrag your drive first (so all information is moved to the beginning of it) and then you shouldn´t have any problems with loss of data (gparted takes from the end of the partition). Do not know from experiance how good it is though, since I haven´t used it, but what I have heard sound very good.

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http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

There you get better instructions about it. Just click your way to the live-cd section for the ISO.

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Just make sure you use the live-cd, because the program itself is for linux, so you cannot use it from windows.

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bitJericho
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I'm just saying, if you're installing, say ubuntu, it can resize the partition for you, and install a boot loader to run windows or linux.

If you want to install another copy of windows, you won't be able to resize the partition afaik, you'll need to use something like gparted.


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Mr Z
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 18:27 Edited at: 8th Feb 2008 18:28
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Yeah, Ubuntu is good at this. It even comes with gparted preinstalled to its live-cd (but it doesn´t get installed when you install the OS itself), plus it will be able to devide the HD partitions during the installation. But if you do not want that, installing that OS, gpared is good. It´s free to .

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