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Partition Query

by smallfella May 25, 2007 4:58AM PDT

If I partition a drive that already has some data on it am I likely to lose any of that data if I create a partition using about half of the free space?

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Yes.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 25, 2007 5:11AM PDT

That's a fairly serious disk edit. But wait! Did you just reveal you don't have a backup? Hard disks die. Not if they do, but they all will.

Are you ready?

Bob

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Backups???

by smallfella May 25, 2007 5:36AM PDT

I've got 138 gigs of 200 free and I want to create a drive of about 80 gigs to install Vista on and try a dual boot system. I'd certainly save anything of importance.
BTW...thanks for the reply.

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