Hi Jeff, I agree that you should always back up your information.
However, I have used partition magic over the past 7 years at the training facility that I work at. I am the network administrator. I have re-partitioned hundreds of computers over the past 7 years daily. I have only had a drive not boot when there were physical bad sectors on the drive. This is after running Partition Magic to re-size the C:\ drive (boot partition) hundreds of thousands of times. This is my experiences with Partition Magic. I have used it from version 3.01 until current. Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Woodfamily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Allocation of computer drives Hi Glen, Just thought I would jump in... .. I would suggest backing up your C: & D: drives BEFORE re partitioning... It is my experience that if you change the amount of space a drive has ESPECIALLY when their is an operating system on it (your C: drive) the drive may become inaccessible. .. the voice of experience. Jeff Glen Ballard wrote: >The 120 GB is the size of the drive before it is formatted. The formatting >process eats up some of the space. > >If you want to increase the C:\ drive and reduce the D:\ drive, this can be >done. To accomplish this, you will need a program called Partition Magic >from Symantec. There are other programs that do the same thing, but I >haven't personally used them. You can change the size of any hard drive to >be what you want it to be. > >You can add 20 to 40 GB to C:\ and this will decrease D:\ by this much. > > >I personally don't know why they limit the size of C:\ to 14+ GB. I have >seen this done on laptop as well as desktop computers from the >manufacturers. > >Glen > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gail >Nestor >Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:16 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [LegacyUG] Allocation of computer drives > >Here's a question for the computer buffs out there among us. It's slightly >off-topic, but it does relate to where I store my Legacy files (as well as >other personal files) on my computer. I am trying to understand how a >computer's individual drive space is allocated and whether it can be >re-allocated between drives. > >I have a 120GB new hard drive. My C:\ drive shows 14.9GB and my D:\ drive >shows 96.8GB. Now I know this adds to 111.7GB and that leaves 8.3GB >unaccounted for. I do have a floppy disk drive, a memory stick drive, and >2 >DVD drives that appear to be for removable media only. I'm not sure where >the rest of the space went. However, my main question is why is only >14.9GB >allocated to C:\ and can/should this be changed? > >With my previous hard drive, I saved most of my data files on the D:\ drive >because that's where all the major storage space seemed to be, and because >it was neat and tidy and not buried in the computer's directory system. >However, I don't understand then why the default drive for "my documents" >and "my pictures" and such is under the C:\drive. Also, in many cases the >default storage space for an application, Lecagy included, is very embedded >within a sub-, sub-, sub-directory and can be somewhat hard to find. > >This issue comes up because I have just had all my data on my hard drive >recovered and now am in the process of reloading my data files and *.usr >files into the new hard drive. It has taken me a while to learn where all >the needed files are stored. However, I think this will help me as I make >plans to back up my data nightly to my new external 120GB hard drive. This >seems to be better than having to manually save to multi-DVDs. > >Anyway, sorry this is long, but any thoughts are greatly appreciated! >Gail Nestor >Smyrna, Georgia, USA >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nestorgenealogy/ > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
