Just got a 320 gig at a local place for 63 bux...enough left from 70 to get quizno's on the way home.
Mike On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bundled "free" software doesn't always have all the features you would > like it to have. In this case it looks like it did not have the extra > code required to write a partition that is a different size that the > original partition. > > Software exists that will let you repartition a drive without losing the > data. The most well known of these is Partition Magic ($70). Though using > it on a drive that has not been backed up is not a great idea. The $70 > might be better spent on a new drive. Then just copy the data from the > current drive to the new drive. As you now know, you can never have > enough hard drives. > > > >I probably was not very clear. THe replacement 500 GB drive which is the > >secondary drive is recognized just fine. THe primary drive was originally > >recognized as 500 GB but then I used Safety Drill to clone the original > >160GB drive onto it. So it created 2 partitions (actually there are 2 > other > >small partitions that were on the original Dell Drive that are there > too). > >THe first is seen as the C drive of only 160 GB, the second partition > (the D > >drive) is 316 GB. I guess I wanted to know if there is some way to copy > the > >existing 160 GB partition, create a new boot drive with all my > applications > >and data from the 160 GB on a 500 GB drive so I don't have to split it up > as > >two drives. I'm not familiar with other "cloning" software so I don't > know > >how they work, but I assume that I want what people usually use to copy > >their boot drive onto a larger drive. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
