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No not another partition thread…..I have searched and there are millions of topics just on partitions but none answers my question so:

What’s the best way to set up a hdd with 2 partitions? all it needs to be is very reliable.
I install xp home service pack 1 twice and I partitioned it with the feature on the xp disk but after working fine for about a month it crashed and I lost my files!! is the software on the xp install disk good? or should I partition it some other way?
Thanks
 
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XPs partitioning abilities are reliable enough, if not particularly well featured. I'm somewhat confused as to what you mean by crashed. This is usually not related to the partition itself, but to other issues with the computer.

Partition Magic will allow you to alter partitions without reformatting, but it's not free.
 
I don't know if you are interested in spending an money but, Partition Magic is a great piece of software. Partitioning on the fly. You can partition from inside windows. You can resize, delete or create partitions. For me it is worth the money. I play with linux alot and need to partition so I can dual boot with windows. I like to create a partion for backup purposes or what ever you want. Google it and check out the features and price. Now that won't cost you anything to have a look.:o
 
I’ll I need is to load 2 OS on the one drive.

I cant remember it was a couple of months ago, I think when I booted the pc it said something like “invalid boot device please insert system disk or boot disk and restart” I tried again and same thing so I put it as a slave drive and when I go to open the drive in my computer I can't remember what it said “volume not supported” something along those lines I scanned it with stellar phoenix and it recovered about 4gb of about 100gb my friend said it wasn’t the partition it was something like the file structure that remembers where things are that’s why there was no file names when it recovered it.

I don’t know I’ll just format it and partition it with the xp disk.
Thanks anyway
 
I’m sick if computers there just trouble…I hook up the 160gb drive that crashed and guess what it worked so I moved the files into one folder and they disappeared!!!!!!! I burnt the folder anyway and it filled nearly half of the DVD but the properties said it has about 2mb in it and the files aren’t there…..so what did it burn?
 
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Pauly said:
I don't know if you are interested in spending an money but, Partition Magic is a great piece of software. Partitioning on the fly. You can partition from inside windows. You can resize, delete or create partitions. For me it is worth the money. I play with linux alot and need to partition so I can dual boot with windows. I like to create a partion for backup purposes or what ever you want. Google it and check out the features and price. Now that won't cost you anything to have a look.:o
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well, i do not understand why do people pay more.
i mean Disk Director is CHEAPER then partion magic and more functional.
 
I have never tried Disk Doctor so I really can't say that it is better than Partition Magic. Not to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but I have come to learn that you get what you pay for. You buy cheap you get cheap. I just thought how I would do things if I was concerned about Partitions. The software has never failed me. If something works you stick with it. However there are probably plenty of programs to partition a drive with that are great pieces of software.
 
U're absolutely right-there are plenty of programs,
but Symantec is most famous and well-known. that's why people buy it,
although it's more expensive then other ones and sometimes(as in Disk Director case) even more functionless.
i'm using that Acronis company product and hasn't met any problems.
so, i don't understand why should i pay more for same products (as i meantioned above, sometimes even worse)
 
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