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    Bit of help

    Hey All

    Let me see if i can explain this.

    Basically, when I format next, I am going to partition my drive, I completely forgot this time around.

    Right, anyway, I was told of a file that a user can backup when it comes to formatting the OS portion of the drive, when the drive is formatted and this file is ran it will relink all the programs etc on the other partitions.

    The only thing is, I cant remember, for the life of me, the name of the file.

    I was wondering if anyone could help?

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    Re: Bit of help

    I don't know about that, but if you're just needing to partition, you could use something like Acronis Disk Director, Norton Ghost, or GParted to create a new partition out of your free space, rather than a full reformat. It seems to me this would be simpler and faster.

    If I'm misunderstanding what you need to get done, feel free to clarify, but it sounds to me that you meant to partition on your last reformat and forgot to do so. I had a similar situation on my last total reformat, except I did partition, but I had made my XP partition too small. I used Acronis Disk Director to take some of the free space from my Vista partition and add it back to the XP partition. Your situation, if I understand correctly, would be much simpler: you simply need to (non-destructively) take some of your free space and use it to create one (or more?) new partitions.

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    Re: Bit of help

    yes, as scorpio said, get a partition manager, Norton has a partition magic....so does paragon...
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    Re: Bit of help

    You have misunderstood, i know of such tools as partition magic etc.

    What I mean is, am planning on formatting soon for various reasons and will be partitioning then.

    1 for OS
    1 for games
    1 for documents etc you know the drill

    What I mean is, say after i format, 7 or 8 months down the line i need to format my OS parition, there is a file on the system which can be backed up, so when once I have formatted the parition and installed the OS and installed drivers, all I need to do, is run this file, and it relinks, all programs etc to the OS partition, without me having to reinstall.

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    Re: Bit of help

    I know not of such a program, but from experience i do this - once a year or so, re-format and go with a new Windows XP partition, leaving my data partitions intact.
    After the re-install of XP i manually tell Windows where 'My Documents' is, etc.
    I then go through a long, laborious process of re-installing all software, since software isnt simply 'linked' in windows like a shortcut but gets installed into the registry, which almost seems to get absorbed into the main windows kernel like some sort of Borg assimilation machine (Actually i'm sure that isnt technically correct about the kernel, however it is how it feels).
    I also use iTunes, and have a seperate MP3 partition, but saving then re-mapping iTunes info is actually a simple process.
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    Re: Bit of help

    This file am talking about, relink certain things, am not sure what, but it helps alot..if i could only remember what the damn thing was called.

    btw..your wife needs some plastici surgery *

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    Re: Bit of help

    Hey, that took alot of time and money for her to get the look just right!
    Well since you have used said program before, it sounds like it'd be a really useful little application for me too one day.

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    Re: Bit of help

    Its not a program mate, its a file you backup on the system, its actually an option within the OS.

    Will have to go and research

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    Re: Bit of help

    Hmm, interesting.
    But you mentioned above about when "this file is ran" - so it's not a program itself, but is a piece of data that Windows accesses, and you want to copy this file into the new Windows partition?
    So Windows will then know where all your data is, like before.

    So it's a directory of a sort?
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    Re: Bit of help

    Hmm kinda of i suppose, but you dont run it from your new OS parition.

    Ill have to check through the books i have

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