Re: OT - A computer Question...

[Peter J. Alling]

Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:

Ok, so now I am totally confused!  Herb and Chris say one thing, whilst
Robert says the complete opposite!
BTW, Herb, I have Partition Magic 8 which I got when I bought my laptop that
had also been partitioned and I managed to remove the partitions using that
without too much drama...
Not sure if I'm game enough to try it here though, I would probably lose a
good portion of my data.
Of course, when I get my DVD burner it won't be an issue, I can burn it all,
but at the moment I have about 20gb of data to "save" and that's aloooooot
of CD's!!
Also, I don't have the original windows CD with this and thus can't reformat
the hard drive... Maybe I should just wait until the manufacturers open
tomorrow morning and ring them and ask them about the way the drive is set
up...?
Oh, AND this probably makes a huge difference in what all of this means and
I should have posted it originally... BUT, the "C:" is formatted as NTFS and
the "D:" is FAT32 - Can anyone explain THIS?
 

Unless you intend to use the second partition with an earlier version of 
windows such as Win95. Win98 or
WinME I can't think of a single valid reason to do this.

The plot thickens...

tan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT - A computer Question...
i don't know who configured your computer, but i can't imagine a restore
drive being more than about 5 or 10 GB. 60 GB is ridiculous. it says 90%
free, so it is even more ridiculous. take the computer to someone that has
and knows how to use the current version of Partition Magic and have them
resize the two partitions to be about 80G for your C drive and everything
else for your D drive.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 6:50 PM
Subject: OT - A computer Question...
 

I am running on Win XP, and when it arrived the drive was already
partitioned - One partition is called "WinXP Home C:", and is 40gb (this
   

is
 

the one that always "fills up").  The second partition is called "Restore
D:" and is 60gb.