ikviens

This is what's been bothering me. I defragmented my only hard disc (and the only partition at that) as a preliminary step to create several new partitions. The result is two strips of used areas cleansed of data fragments. One begins from the very beginning of the available disc space and is 8 GB large. The other is located far away from the first; somewhere near 40 GB mark of 70 GB net storage and the size is .5 GB. One of the borders for partitions that I want to create runs right across the second used data area.

I am wondering what I should do to safely partition my disc. I am going to use GNOME Partition Editor run from a Linux live CD.

Thank you in advance,
ik

ceri sheeran

Hi,

You haven't given an details of the make of computer or hard drive.

I suspect however that the "extra" partition" is a recovery partition, normally hidden, installed by your computer manufacturer on build.

Many machines don't come with software to re-install, they just have a recovery partition which can be accessed to rebuild the machine.

hth

Ceri

ikviens

Greetings ceri,
I had no idea that this mattered but my PC is ThinkPad X60s and the hard drive is 80GB (5,400rpm/Serial ATA/9.5mm/2.5'). Sorry if my first post was not sufficient.

I was speaking of a "data strip" that I saw was marked in deep blue (consecutive data) after I ran Diskeeper Lite. The application said that it defrag-ed the "C Drive (IBM_PRELOAD)." Judging from this indication and the size of the data strip (.5 GB), and from the size of the defrag-ed region (71.081 GB), it cannot be the recovery partition (IBM_SERVICE ca. 5GB in size). Whether this orphan data strip is a _part_ of the recovery mechanism, I don't know.

In any event, I'd appreciate advice how I can safely repartition my hard drive. If this reply is still lacking important data, I should be glad to add.

regards,
ik