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Well, seems my prior issues have revisited me.
In the end, my 50 or so gb HDD has taken a dump. It was my primary HDD, and housed the OS.
As such, my computer will not boot. Before I rush into ripping it out (which will occur), and formating my 320gb backup I have a quick question.
Is it possible through MSDOS to partition a drive without losing the data that is currently stored on said drive?
The 320gb drive was my storage drive for music, etc. Before I go and install Windows XP on it though I want to partition it out so that the OS is only stored on a small portion of the drive (say 25-30gb). But, I don't know if I can partition the drive through DOS or the Windows XP setup disk without losing my 70-80gb of data already on the drive.
Thanks guys, any advice you have would be spectacular. Just remember I can't get into Windows XP, and if I could - considering my attempts last night - it'd take days on end to do what I could easily do in a few moments through DOS
In the end, my 50 or so gb HDD has taken a dump. It was my primary HDD, and housed the OS.
As such, my computer will not boot. Before I rush into ripping it out (which will occur), and formating my 320gb backup I have a quick question.
Is it possible through MSDOS to partition a drive without losing the data that is currently stored on said drive?
The 320gb drive was my storage drive for music, etc. Before I go and install Windows XP on it though I want to partition it out so that the OS is only stored on a small portion of the drive (say 25-30gb). But, I don't know if I can partition the drive through DOS or the Windows XP setup disk without losing my 70-80gb of data already on the drive.
Thanks guys, any advice you have would be spectacular. Just remember I can't get into Windows XP, and if I could - considering my attempts last night - it'd take days on end to do what I could easily do in a few moments through DOS