Sam Heywood wrote:
>>On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:55:04 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Clarence Verge wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:46:06 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Hello Clarence:
>> 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit (cluster size?)
> Ouch !
> Partition it.<<
> But DON'T use FDISK unless you have a complete backup of your HD and a boot
> floppy. Use one of the non-destructive disk partitioners available, such as
> Partition Magic, that will partition a HD on the fly. STANDARD CAVEAT:
> Always have a complete backup before you do *anything* with your hard drive.
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Roger:
Thanks for the info and the caveats. I don't have a storage device large
enough to hold all my data. Don't know if I can partition a hard drive
having an ovelay system.<<
Sam,
I have Disk Manager (an overlay system) on one of my computers and have the
HD partitioned into drives C: thru K:. Disk Manager has never stopped me
from resizing any partitions whenever I needed to. (I can't recall if I
added any partitions since I got DM or not.) For partitioning, I use
Partition Magic and have never lost a byte while using it. (Although I was
very frustrated at one point when PM refused to resize a partition, until I
RTFM and saw that I needed to resize in very small increments a couple of
times as the partition was very full.)
Even if you need umpteen floppies, you need periodic backups of your hard
drive or you are inviting disaster. (PKZIP will backup and compress across
floppies.) On one of my computers which I backed up weekly, the first sign
of the HD failing was when multiple attempts to boot were necessary, then,
Kaboom!, the drive gave out. With the price of hard drives so low now (I saw
an ad this past weekend for a 10GB drive for $77), you can install a hot
swappable tray and back up your drive to a removable HD.
Hope this helps.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
