calumn
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Ok, the time has come for me to reinstall windows. I originally had windows vista and bought an upgrade disc to go to windows 7 - so it was already slow and messy to start with.
But basically I have about 400Gb of files, photos, music + emails, favourites, documents and stuff to back up from a total of 5 user accounts.
I was going to back this all up to a mixture of external hard drives, dvds and other computers but it will take ages.
I was wondering if it is possible for me to repartition my current drive (1 Tb with a single partition) to be two 500gb paritions - so my current files, windows installation etc. will be in one partition and the other will be empty. And then for me to install windows 7 in the new partition so I can just move the files between partitions and then wipe the old partition and merge them together.
Is this possible? I know how to partition a fresh drive, but can you do it with one that has data on it without losing any?
But basically I have about 400Gb of files, photos, music + emails, favourites, documents and stuff to back up from a total of 5 user accounts.
I was going to back this all up to a mixture of external hard drives, dvds and other computers but it will take ages.
I was wondering if it is possible for me to repartition my current drive (1 Tb with a single partition) to be two 500gb paritions - so my current files, windows installation etc. will be in one partition and the other will be empty. And then for me to install windows 7 in the new partition so I can just move the files between partitions and then wipe the old partition and merge them together.
Is this possible? I know how to partition a fresh drive, but can you do it with one that has data on it without losing any?