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Hi, Chris,
The only way you can re-partition your hard drive without losing all your programs, is with a 3rd party partition manager, such as Partition Magic or Bootit NG.
Otherwise you will have to start from scratch, and re-install XP on a clean hard drive.
Jerry
"Chris J." <anonymous@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:309atnF2tqo2mU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Any links where I can find out how to do this? What are the true benefits?
> TY
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I have two hard disks on my machine. The master drive is divided into
several partitions. In theory, if you keep all your important data on a
separate partition from the OS (usually C then if you ever have to
reinstall the OS then your data is relatively safe. I use Norton Ghost to
keep backups of the C: drive on the second hard disk.
"Chris J." <anonymous@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:309atnF2tqo2mU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Any links where I can find out how to do this? What are the true benefits?
> TY
>
>
>
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"Philip" <pr_bellamy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
news:cnpqev$vq5$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk:
> I have two hard disks on my machine. The master drive is divided into
> several partitions. In theory, if you keep all your important data on
> a separate partition from the OS (usually C then if you ever have to
> reinstall the OS then your data is relatively safe. I use Norton Ghost
> to keep backups of the C: drive on the second hard disk.
>
There are a lot of perfectly valid reasons for multiple partitions on the
same drive. The idea that having your OS on a different partition of the
same physical drive makes your data safe is simply not one of them.
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