[penvzila]

When I first set up my hard drive, I stupidly made a bunch of small (<30gb) partitions, and worst of all made the c:\ partition too small. I would like to convert my many partitions into 2 or 3 larger ones. I was going to get partition magic because i really dont feel like spending four days backing up all of my stuff, but i was put off by all the reports of horrible problems on amazon. Namely, that even the latest version sucks in WinXP and it can't handle EZ-BIOS (both of wich i have). So, I was wondering if there are any safe alternatives? I have heard of Acronis TrueImage 6.0, anyone use it?

 

[wallijonn]

penzilla,

your avatar still drives me nuts.

try listening to www.digitallyimpiorted.com Hard House and look at your avatar.

man, my eyes! my eyes! i have a headache now.

can't help you with partitions. i use caddies.

 

[imported_maverick_12]

I can't stand your avatar wallijonn. That kid drives me nuts, and that picture is just a giant ugh.

And for the partitions, uh, use diskmanager in windows, its the best. There are no "safe" alternitives.

 

[wallijonn]

hm, i can see it now: another useless thread: "i don't like your avatar. please change it."

 

[bootman]

You used ez-bios to do the partitioning?
Is your computer really old?

The ez-bios will definitely screw you up.
Every partion program will warn you that they don't recomend translation programs like ez-bios and ez-drive to co-exsist with their programs.

try to see if you can first uninstall ez-bios.
you will need to get some help from Phoenix tech on how to do this properly without distroying the partitions.
If you can't then you will have to back everything up.
(I would do this anyway since **** always happens when you don't want it to.

)

Here is a link to start.

Good luck

 

[penvzila]

It's actually very new. WD makes you use EZBIOS.

 

[penvzila]

The drive i am talking about is a 120gig WD special edition.

 

[bootman]

Quote:

Originally posted by penvzila It's actually very new. WD makes you use EZBIOS.

huh?

No it doesn't. A new PC can see a 120 gig HD with no problems.

The ez-bios is for those with really old pcs that can't handle the new drives.

I have a 120 gig drive (along with an 80 gig)
It must be me, but I throw away those install disks.
If I just added a new drive to an existing system then xp can do all of the partitioning and formatting.
If its a new system from scratch, then the xp install cd handles it.
EZ-Bios is going to hold you back at this point.
See if you can get rid of it first.
(back up anyway!)

 

[Duncan]

I didn't use EZ-Bios with my 80gb WD Caviar 8mb cache SE HD...

I got mine as an OEM... and just formatted it with a maxtor floppy disk I had lurking about... even let me copy all the data from my old HD to the new one (like Norton Ghost I guess) - job done

 

[imported_maverick_12]

Yeah, I've had a 120gig WD SE for about 6months now, never used that stuff. About to go buy me a raptor for a new boot drive.

 

[bootman]

Your old drive must have been a Maxtor,
otherwise it wouldn't let the program run.

 

[Duncan]

thats right bootman

I don't know if it should of formatted the HD, but it did

 

[spaceman]

I use Partition Magic on both my Win98 and XP machines, and have had no problems at all. It's a snap to rearrange partition sizes, but I would still back up your important files first, just in case.

 

[penvzila]

I have confirmed that i do not in fact have ezbios. The whole point of trying partition magic was supposed to be to reduce the amount of work i would have to do. Plus, I used my second XP Pro license on another computer, and when i reformatted that, they acted like i was trying to install it on a third computer. So, i also dont feel like fighting with MS tech support for an hour again.

 

[bootman]

I didn't know you was a fan of the movie scanners.

I sent you a PM.