can sum one give a Comprehensible site on disk partitioning.....

Not necessary, get Partition Magic Pro, simple.

what does it do?

Partitioning is dividing one hard drive into smaller parts. Partition Magic Pro is a program that makes that process easier. I dont knwo fo any sites, but I learned to partion with fdisk and by reading SlackWare's book at www.slackware.com .

"get Partition Magic Pro," Right, spend a lot of money on a program you'll use 3 time in your life ('cuss CR wouldn't sugest to get it from a warez site, right?).

RedX

GNU parted will do the same thing as partition magic, and for free. It doesn't have a gui, though.

Red hat has some documentation on this stuff at http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/doc/RH-DOCS/rhl-ig-x86-en-7.3/ch-p...

Or you could just use fdisk, it worked fine for me. It should be on just about any Linux boot disk or CD.

No, because fdisk is unmaintained now. Everyone used parted. Parted can also non-destructively partition, meaning you can resize old partitions and their filesystems will automatically be modified to reflect the new size without losing data. And their is newt frontend to parted named nparted that provides a cfdisk-ish interface to parted at http://www.laespiral.org/proyectos/nparted/ .

"spend a lot of money on a program you'll use 3 time in your life"

What do you mean "spend money"? Who ever said anything about spending money

partition magic costs like 70$>.. im gonna see if someone has it on EBAY....

"Who ever said anything about spending money "
U're encouraging warez? Now that's naughty!

RedX

They're called "Unlimited trials" red...

Why don't you just use the old DOS program fpart (I'm pretty sure it's called fpart...). It's not the most versitile thing out, but it's free, and if all you need to do is split your disk into two parts, it'll work fine. You just have to reformat the partitions it creates to "anit-DOS" them, lol. But if you need to do something fancy I guess you'll need something better :-)

Um, GNU Parted = Free...nparted is also usable. It was probably fips you are thinking about for the dos parititoner. Or maybe even dos fdisk, which sucks even more than GNU/Linux fdisk. nparted is probably the best way to go.

You're assuming dago is using linux.... Plus PM Pro does everything without losing any data on the drive

eh, if your going to spend money buying software to do it, might as well just get another hard drive...

Parted can also partition without losting data. And there is a little thing called a boot disk...just grab tomsrbt or whatever recovery disk that has parted on it, boot from the floppy, and repartition. That was easy. And it is a _huge_ waste to pay $70 on partitioning software when a 40GB HD can be had for $70 US.

Again, paying is OPTIONAL

And even if you are an ethicle person, you can still download the demo for free and use it for 30 days

correction: ethical

was that a correction for your previous post, or the one before it..

You can always set back your clock if you want to use it longer, it works with most shareware programs.

why would you use a partitioning program for more then 30 days anyways, isn't it just to be used once?

In case you decide to add another OS later... or remove one.

Or if you just like reinstalling OS every other day...
But ya, you would only need to use it a few times.

"Or if you just like reinstalling OS every other day..."

Or short: "If you have Windows..."

Good point Red.

I'm writting a program that automatically backs up our main files onto the USB drive. Since you can do that with a shell script, my family doesn't like the confusing text, so I'm just making a GUI with rapidQ that runs the shell script.

I'm going to be an OS hobo too now.

ok... so can sumone please tell me where i can get the TRial version for 30 days???

Kazaa

Google for PowerQuest.... they are the people who make it.

i dont really like kazaa... i tried to download sumthing and i got a virus instead!... power quest??? never heard of that ... but i will look it up

Maybe you should download files that end in .vbs

thanx codered...im downloading partition magic 7.0 from the website GIAN prescibed... I plan on converting my system back to FAT32... would this program help me do that?

I meant shouldn't, not should

what does .vbs stand for?

Its a new type of audio format. Really high quality..

Actually its a visual basic script. I suggest you don't download them.

Usually people use it to write viruses in... except the laughable was it Nimda which was written in Delphi and weighed in at something like 250kb :-)

ok... but .exe can be viruses too right?... i guess u have to take that risk?....

yup. Just make sure the size is reasonable. There don't tend to be too many 10 meg viruses.

Anything can be a virus practically, provided it has some way of executing.

I've seen a virus written in a MS-Dos batch file. When executed it made the max. amount of subdirectories and copied itself into each of them and then deleted the command.com.

ouch.
I got that 'colombia' virus that always changes your homepage and replaces your jpegs and mp3's with itself.

I looked at the source code.
The person who made it is insane.

I have never gotten a virus

diegoeskryptic: I tried the partition magic demo from Powerquest. They didn't think it would be helpfull to mention that the demo only shows their IDE, but can't do anything real. Not even in the popup that appears when one clicks on "apply".

@redX: Oh man.. i thought i was going crazy... I was trying to convert my system back to FAT32 and it would not work... yes u are right when u try to click apply... it stays the same... ahhhhh!!!

@Codered and MOP: i got sum virus, that just basically downloaded Millions of documents to my computer... it made my computer so slow.. I had to shut it down by taking the wires out....

but ne way... I have now downloaded KazaaLite.. in which I will get partition magic pro 7.0... i need to change my system back to Fat32.....

@MOP