[NYC GOP Chick]

It's not the money so much as the hassle and fearing that I'd be getting in over my head.

Where can I find out how to partition the hard drive?

[XBob]

73 - "It's not the money so much as the hassle and fearing that I'd be getting in over my head.

Where can I find out how to partition the hard drive?"
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If you are doing serious work on this machine, you better spend the money. If you are playing around, have fun.

Nothing wrong with the question, but if you don't know how to format a drive, you are playing in dangerous territory.

Get a new system, and get it up and running satisfactorily, then play around with this old one, so that if you do any damage you won't hurt anything important, and you can have a wonderful learning experience, and apply it to your next upgrade.

[krizzy]

When you first install the operating system, you are given the option to keep drive C the full size of the hard drive. you can select no and set the size to a smaller number. then you do the same for each of the other drive letters, D,E, and F.

If you are not going to reinstall the os use a third party program like Partition Magic from Norton

as far as getting in over your head, I am assuming you have never done this before, you can get yourself into a bit of trouble. IE, halfway through you have a question, or you dont have a driver and your machine wont start, you can't get online to ask the question or DL the driver.

[krizzy]

When you first install the operating system, you are given the option to keep drive C the full size of the hard drive. you can select no and set the size to a smaller number. then you do the same for each of the other drive letters, D,E, and F.

If you are not going to reinstall the os use a third party program like Partition Magic from Norton

as far as getting in over your head, I am assuming you have never done this before, you can get yourself into a bit of trouble. IE, halfway through you have a question, or you dont have a driver and your machine wont start, you can't get online to ask the question or DL the driver.

[tomkat]

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