I just love it when a plan comes together!Originally Posted by Beirut
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I just love it when a plan comes together!Originally Posted by Beirut
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Hey! I had his autograph back when I was in high school. A chick friend of mine at school did some movie and tv extra stuff. She got the gigs because her dad worked for the CBC. Anyway, when I found out she'd be working near (under?) G.P., I asked her to get his autograph for me and she did.Originally Posted by Xiahou
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You van also always play with Partition Magic. The pro of using it is that you can pretty much do whatever you want with your hdd, whenever you want. That is definitely point and click, and it offers you the most functionality that I've ever seen under windoze.
Since I said "the pro", you may have already guessed that there may be a con. And there is. I've had it crash and die on me, ****** up the data, twice, on two different systems, different circumstances. Out of the blue, tru' microsoft style. I've also used it several other times without having that happen to me.
So if your disk is clean, you may go with something simpler - although, in this case, you also have nothing to lose even if PM crashes :P.
So it's up to you.
Good luck!
(Thanks for the help, but only the stars when swearing please - Beirut)
Last edited by Beirut; 02-09-2007 at 12:24.
Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.
gparted is widely regarded as the best choice if you wish to do this seriously (but back up all data on the affected drive, as always, before proceeding)
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https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=105Originally Posted by sapi
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hey, not fair, I thought we were only talking windows proggies!
Naturally, Beirut, if you really want the most you can get from partitioning disks, I would recommend linux. That's how I've always partitioned all my drives. BUT, as with other things linux, things tend to be not extremely user-friendly.
Never tried gparted myself, always been a fan of fdisk(although I think I have played with parted at some point).
However, a weird thing I've noticed is that some of the friendlier ones (i.e., ones with a GUI), are less flexible, and offer you less functionality, than some of the unfriendlier ones. Disk druid is a classic example of that. So it's all up to your personal taste in the end.
So, in conclusion, sure, if you are willing to use Linux, by all means, do use one of the (many) utilities available to partition your disk.
Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.
@bloodrast - i've read nice things about gparted, including user friendlyness ;)
I am wondering why you've even considered a distinction between windows and linux partitioning tools. you never partition from within an OS so it really makes no difference what mini-os they use to present the ui
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The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions, a statistic -Stalin
We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area -UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer
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