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Old 07-21-2006   #7 (permalink)
Alan Simpson


 
 

Re: free partitioning software

Oh yeah, I guess I should have mentioned that. It's not "nice" partitioning.
It's more like sledge-hammer partitioning. You only use it on new drives or
when you want to wipe a drive clean and and start over.

"Mark D. VandenBeg" <mvan103@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Alan Simpson" <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message
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>> You don't really need to buy anything to partition and format drives. You
>> can use the Disk Management tool in Vista or XP.

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> Doesn't the XP version wipe the data when partitioning and resizing?
> Although not very clear in the post, I assume the OP currently has an XP
> box with one hard drive and wants to partition the drive to install Vista
> without spending any money.
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