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More info?)
Thomas,
If you want to safely partition the drive that already
contains data, use Partition magic, you can create boot
floppies that will allow you to repartition your hard
drive. Now if you want to relocate stuff like "Documents
and Settings" from C drive to D drive, that is little more
involved, but can be done. For My Documents, that is easy
to relocate to a different drive. Another solution is (if
you have the room) add another hard drive and partition it
then place your data there. If you plan to relocate your
page files,then you need to do that on a separate hard
drive on a separate IDE channel.
Jeff
>-----Original Message-----
>The only way to partition on the fly, without losing
programs already installed is with a 3rd party partition
manager such as Partition Magic or BootIt NG.
>If you use Fdisk you will lose all programs.
>
>--
>JerryM (ID)
>
>MURPHY'S COMPUTER LAW
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>"Thomas Cox" <chipotles2@cox.net> wrote in message
news:01f201c48ae6$9da3b7c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>I have been trying to find information on partitioning
XP
>> to have one for XP, one for my data and one for swap
>> files.
>>
>> The only info I have found as of yet is about other
>> Oerating Systems, not XP.
>>
>> Could you tell me if this is my best route and how to
>> find the information to accomplish this?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Thomas
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