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Old 07-29-2008, 01:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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partitioning 500gb into 6 partitions w/ disk managment

i have a 500gb ata hdd i would like to make 4 100gb partitions and 2 50gb partitions on this drive using the disk management utility in windows i do not have any data on drive
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Old 07-29-2008, 06:08 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: partitioning 500gb into 6 partitions w/ disk managment

Use gparted since you have experience in linux.
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Re: partitioning 500gb into 6 partitions w/ disk managment

ok i will give that a try i currently have a 128gb partion with just files could i just use the other unpartioned space
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