Ian W Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Have formatted the hard drive on my home pc as i'm selling it and getting myself a laptop. only problem is that the hard drive when bought was partitioned into three separate drives and also had D:backup and E:recover as well as the usual C:boot. when I reinstalled XP it formatted the C:boot but left the others as they were. question is should i leave them as they are, format them and leave the partitions in place or remove the partitions altogether? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Are you selling it "with" XP or just putting it on as a blanker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 selling it "with" XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 id format them, use fdisk or disk manager to create one partition. stick the swap file on it to speed things up. jobs a goodun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 id format them, use fdisk or disk manager to create one partition. stick the swap file on it to speed things up. jobs a goodun may as well have just sent you a PM eh, edd? i can format them while in XP in my computer can't i? is fdisk or disk manager already on there and what d'you mean by swap file? pm me if you like and thanks very much for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 teehee yup what ya wanna do is right mouse click on my computer and select Manage. That will open computer manager. Go into Storage - Disk Management You'll probalby find your hard disk listed as Disk0 and it will have 3 partions to it. RMC on the other partions and format them, once formatted RMC on them again and choose delete partion. this should create one large 2nd partition. RMC again and choose create partion. Sorted The swap file is the virtual memory, an area on the harddisk that the pc rights to when the RAM is full. its always good to keep this off the physical disk that the OS (XP) is on. having a think you only have 1 harddisk, so moving it to a different partition wont really help much, so forget that idea for now you shouldnt need to use FDISK as Computer Manager should work ok. FDISK is a DOS thing that comes in handy when a harddisk is buggerd! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Was gonna say- blat them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 Cheers Edd, you're a star. BUT, why would i delete a partition (to create a large second partition) and then create a partition? surely i may as well leave it as it is lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 sorry yeah, im confusing myself when you have created the large partion you just need to make sure its formatted so it can be used as one partion i havnt got a pc i can test it out on so this is all from memory at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 i see. so i'll basically end up with two partitions then? the C:boot and the other partition left? confused, I am!!! think i may well just format the two of them and leave all the partitions where they are. The two other partitions shouldn't have anything on them that is needed by the pc though, should they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Which is also good for backing up ones data too in the event you decide to reformat the boot partition again. Many laptops have been shipping like this for a while, because they come with 'recovery' disks which just go over the whole partition anyway. The only addition I'd make is that you don't need to format these other partitions before you delete them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 and RMC means right-mouse-click. (I've never seen that acronym before.. just thought I'd help out! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 how did you re-install XP? was it from a disk supplied with the pc, some manufactures change XP around so this it will do things like make use of backup partions. lol the fun of computers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 and RMC means right-mouse-click. (I've never seen that acronym before.. just thought I'd help out! ) haha I use that all the time, i have to right out a lot of support manuals, I always have a little legend on them so people know what im going on about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 how did you re-install XP? was it from a disk supplied with the pc, some manufactures change XP around so this it will do things like make use of backup partions. lol the fun of computers Edd, it wasn't from a disc supplied with the pc as i'd lost that one (was a cracked disc). it seems to me the manufacturer has made use of it as there are some files on those partitions that i didnt put there! thing is, am i safe to just leave whatever is on those partitions there? (i.e. there's nothing personal on there i'm assuming) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 very much doubt theres anything personal. and if its from a cracked disk then everything you need will be on C: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 cool, so there won't likely be any drivers etc that i would need to run the PC on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 nope, especially as they were just backup and recovery drives. You could try and rename the folders that are on the drives, if comes up saying that you cant rename them because they are in use, then somehow in some weird way they would be connected, but i very much doubt that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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