partitioning

[farmer]

Hi just installed new hard drive and all seems to have ghosted across ok . any hints on partitioning to get the drive acting it's size would be apreciated

thanks
Ian

[Scraggles]

farmer said:

Hi just installed new hard drive and all seems to have ghosted across ok . any hints on partitioning to get the drive acting it's size would be apreciated

thanks
Ian

was the drive formatted first ? assume it was a data drive ?

[farmer]

It is a brand new 80gb hard drive and I used a ghost programme installed on a bootable cd at first start after instalation then shut down and swapped the master/slave cable to make it boot up from the new drive which it has done sucesfully , but of course the file system still thinks it is a smaller 20gb drive even though the system recognises it as bigger . as you can tell I'm not an expert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sneakyneil]

Ghost should resize it for you during the process, I'd try it again and make sure the destination size fills the drive. You might have to delete the partition from the destination again before you can select it as a destination again in ghost.

[jimmyjimjim]

And if it doesn't, Drive image will. Much prefer it to ghost these days.
Failing that, partition magic is what you want.

[arcturus]

Download the GPartEd Live CD iso, burn the iso to CD and you will have a self booting partition editor with which you can resize the partition as you desire.

GPartEd stand for Gnome Partition Editor.

[farmer]

thanks one and all .

certainly got something to think about cheers

[gr4eme]

Its good to have at least 2 partitions

C: System (operating system)

D: Data (personal files)

Take a back up of each partitiion

If your operating system dies you can restore it and you dont have to worry about your data on D: becasue the computer sees it as a different drive.

If your Data dies just restore it - no resinstalling the operating system and all of your program files

[farmer]

gr4eme said:

Its good to have at least 2 partitions

C: System (operating system)

D: Data (personal files)

Take a back up of each partitiion

If your operating system dies you can restore it and you dont have to worry about your data on D: becasue the computer sees it as a different drive.

If your Data dies just restore it - no resinstalling the operating system and all of your program files

I just want to get it to act it's size before any fancy stuff !!

[R1 GTR]

I have a trial version of Ghost but dont want it or the partition its made. If i remove it using control panel will it ask if i want to remove the partition?

[Scraggles]

find it easier to do a full format and full re-install rather than flaff around with ghost

this way my 120gb boot drive reports correctly, my 3 150 GB actual capacity drives also report thier correct size, some games on C:, most on the 2 sata drives

personal files kept on sata drive and they can be removed if the pc needs to goto a shop for the odd time i cant fix anything

[SneakyNeil]

R1 GTR said:

I have a trial version of Ghost but dont want it or the partition its made. If i remove it using control panel will it ask if i want to remove the partition?

The one on new Dells? I removed a load a few months ago and they all asked to remove the partition, but then I did another new one the other day and it didn't. So I dunno.