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  1. October 29th, 2002, 11:56 AM #1
    rwinegar
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    Partition Without Loosing Data?

    I have a slaved 80 GB hard drive that contains 30GB of data. The drive is formatted FAT32 and is not partitioned. I would like to create a partition of 10MB on which to image the master drive. Can I partition the slave drive by going to my computer/manage without loosing any data or must I purchase a program to do this?

    Dell 8200
    Win XP Home
    P4 1.5
    512 Ram

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  2. October 29th, 2002, 12:02 PM #2
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    I'm pretty sure that you can partition without losing info -- it's when you have multiple partitions and you want to re-partition, or turn them all into one, that you run into problems...

    If i'm wrong, I do know that you can use Partition Magic to do what you're looking to do...

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  3. October 29th, 2002, 03:15 PM #3
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    By using power Quest Partition Magic 7.0 and above you can resize your partition without loosing your data
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  4. October 29th, 2002, 04:39 PM #4
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    If you'd rather not spend any money on PM7, you can download the freeware Ranish Partition Manager from here:

    http://www.ranish.com/part/

    You should always back up your data before attempting any partitioning operation, though. I lost a few gigs worth the other day when PM7 locked up on me. Fortunately I had it all backed up to CD-R.
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