How dangerous is partitioning?
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Topic: How dangerous is partitioning?
Posted By: Apotheosis
Subject: How dangerous is partitioning?
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 5:34pm
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Below is a long story to the question in the title. If you wish, you can simply answer the title question with out reading my long ass explination or you can do both, the choice remains yours. Long story - I downloaded, burned and ran the disk to get Ubuntu and all that good stuff. When it came time to install it, I came across 4 different ways to partition my HD: Resize it and use the extra space created, erase everything, use largest continous free space and partition manually. First, I tried the third option and it told me it could not be performed and if I continued it would wipe my HD. Obviously I did not want that, so I moved on to the resizing option. I tried to resize 20 GB and it told me that was not enough room, so I tried 25 GB, and it froze. Finally, I tried to do it manually. I left about 5 extra GB along with the space already used. Therotically this should work, but when I hit 'Finish' it told me that this could be potentially dangerous and that I need to back up anything important, but as I don't have any means to back up 20 GB, it is either all or nothing. So, back to my question - how much of a chance does this have of erasing everything? |
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Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 5:45pm
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I never worked with any partitioning with that specific OS, but there
is the posibility that it COULD just split a lot of your files in half,
but don't take my word for it...that's why they have you wipe your HD
before, I'm not sure how the one option you're choosing will
work. if I were you I'd just do a backup of all of your important
files, and go for it. ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 5:48pm
| Well, I don't really have any important files, just 4 seasons of Red vs Blue and like 10 GB of music that I really don't want to download again. |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 5:51pm
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i could never partition my drive unless it was empty
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 5:56pm
| Partitioning shouldn't kill all your data, but it could. You should be backing up your data anyway!! A DVD burner is down to under $50. Or you can get big hard drives for cheap, and a USB dock to plug it in to the PC...if your HDD tanked, you wouldn't have the option. |
Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 6:02pm
| I do plan on getting an external soon, but I am impatient and want to do this now. :) |
Posted By: White o Light
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 6:06pm
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 6:14pm
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Partion magic froze when I was partioning and completely erased my HD. I decided never again to mess with it.
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 6:15pm
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So I take it you want to keep your windows partition and dual boot? I dual boot, but I have windows on one hard drive and ubuntu on another. If you just want to completely switch, back up what you want on cd's and just completely erase your windows partition. Linux is different than windows and takes some getting used to. You might want to read http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning.html - this (on partitioning) and http://www.psychocats.net/essays/linuxvwindows.php - this (linux vs. windows) If you need any help with Ubuntu, I recommend http://www.ubuntuforums.org - ubuntuforums.org . There are some knowledgeable people when it comes to Linux on this forum too. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 6:22pm
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Yes, I wanted to dual boot and I've read plenty of stuff on partitioning, but it all said it could erase everything and I was just wondering how big of a chance this is, that is all. I know there are some that know what they are doing on here, but from my searches it seems everyone always asks them and I'm sure they are about tired of noobs quizzing them, so I figured I would make this as less of a direct confrontation. |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 6:42pm
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stop being a prude and just repartition the whole drive. then install windows on one partition and linux on the other. of course, save any stuff you want to keep on a different drive or some other media. ------------- 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 6:43pm
| Yeah, a fresh windows install will be nice anyway, all squeaky clean and clutter free. |
Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 7:00pm
I have no other drive though, just my main C drive and no other media device large enough to hold 10 GB of music and videos.
Well, I just got it at the end of May, so it basically is squeaky clean. |
High Voltage wrote:Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 8:41pm
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Its been so long since I lacked having about 5 hard drives or 3 computers that I totally forgot what its like not being able to back things up... Ahh nostalgia. ------------- 
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 11:51pm
| When did linux all of the sudden get so popular? Anyway, I used it (like MBro) before it was popular. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 24 July 2006 at 11:58pm
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It's the same it is now as it was then... Oh and you COULD try to use something like Partition Magic, I'm not sure if that will work with Linux, if you can, then that's good, because it's easy, and it doesn't slice files in half. ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 12:02am
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If you want to partition without wiping it, one thing to remember to do is a defrag- it should cluster all the data towards one part. It'll help, anyway...
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Posted By: Catch the WAVES
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 12:07am
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I would suggest downloading VMware. Suggestion mostly unrelated. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 12:32am
The reason I started using Linux was because I was tired of being limited to the number of times I could install XP using the same cd key, and because I felt Windows was controlling me, instead of me being able to control my OS. I didn't do it because it was "cool" or anything like that. I just was interested in it and wanted a change. Now I hardly ever use Windows. I'm sure many people feel the same way. ------------- irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 12:43am
Nah, I was talking about on this forum. I used it before it was popular with the people on this forum. Also, I am happy that more people are using linux, maybe companies will start to see its popularity and more of them will develop products for it (except the companies that make horrible products already). |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 12:50am
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