Usually, hard drive repartition is operated to optimize the partition arrangement. For example, thesystem partition is running out of space, excessive/insufficient numbers of partitions, longing for a dual boot system, or other reasons. In these cases, you can extend partitions, shrink partitions,...
Z97 -A Windows 10 Pro 0 Kudos Reply Rogmilo Level 7 In response to Clintlgm 09-06-2015 07:05 AM Pretty sure drives are fine. I also ran chkdsk and repair from the command prompt.What has gone wrong is that they dont boot the laptop from the system drive like it sh...
But please keep this in mind:repartitioning a hard drive is not always 100% safe and may leads to data lossif you encounter any interruptions or incorrect operations to the hard drive. Errors like “Exception Processing Message”, “Not Enough Memory”, etc. can make your hard drive inaccess...
A second machine makes a great place to store your backups (printer-port cable is easy, ask me). Or buy an extra harddisk for storage (cost is below $20/GByte now). Herman Aalderink, Philippines (Cebu island.)
If you want to boot it with lilo, I would make a partition /boot and put it in the first 500m of the drive. The rest you can divide as you see fit. Particularly for a single user system, there is no compelling reason to break it up, so you might have, /boot, 0-50mb (or ...
Always back up the data stored on the hard drive before partitioning or repartitioning it Always read the warnings and message prompts while performing such critical tasks Conclusion Disk Management is a powerful tool provided by Windows OS. It can be used to create, format, or delete new part...
second hard disk, logical partitions inside extended partition - Linux native & swap - hence no letter under Windows. So ... where did E: come from? There are also size discrepancies between your two messages. In the first message, you say the second hard drive is partitioned in this way...