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help the amateurs!!
Posted by funksfaith [send private reply] at August 30, 2002, 01:06:41 AM
hey,firstlyhow can i partition without formatting my drive.
secondly,my drive disappeared all of a sudden and tells me that it cant find 'remin.exe' file.thirdly,most of the softwares i have onmy pc have refusedto open.fourthly,i have been having problems installing norton antivirus,it stops responding when almost through with installation.or does anyone think i have a virus or something.i need some help hear.
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at August 30, 2002, 06:21:24 AM
1. there are programs for that. For example Partition magic (don't bother downloeding the demo, it doesn't do anything)
There are also several freeware progs that do the same thing, just use Google on nondestructive partitioning and make a backup before running such a program as these fail badly in case of power failure and the like. for the latter: If you use a flavor of windows -> format and reinstal.
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at August 30, 2002, 06:31:25 AM
Actually, parted is such a program. I've read that it is designed so that the partition is in a recoverable state 99.9% of the time, or something of that order.
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at August 30, 2002, 06:52:12 AM
2 words: murphy law.
3 words: Make a backup.
Posted by metamorphic [send private reply] at August 30, 2002, 09:57:42 AM
the best way to fix the problems would be to format your disk. Dont forget to backup what you need to first though. Also when you say your drive disapperaed, do u mean windows (or other os) no longer shows it? and what version of your OS are you using? I had huge trouble booting recently and it turned out that the actually HD was faulty.
Posted by diegoeskryptic [send private reply] at August 30, 2002, 10:52:31 AM
go to kazaa or kazaalite... and get partition magic man... but like RED said... dont even bother with the demo version... its a waste of time.... i had to use partition magic to convert my system back to FAT32....
Posted by gian [send private reply] at August 31, 2002, 12:23:30 AM
The partition magic demo worked for me...
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at August 31, 2002, 06:29:22 AM
The demo I downloaded had the functionality of a screenshot.
Posted by funksfaith [send private reply] at August 31, 2002, 01:02:23 PM
ok how do i deal with the disappearance of my desktop?
Posted by mop [send private reply] at August 31, 2002, 01:54:05 PM
install linux
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at August 31, 2002, 11:35:04 PM
or format your hard drive and reinstall windows, making sure to back up your files first.
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