On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM, wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows
> Vista installed on it, and another physical drive which is a Data drive,
> each of them are 150 GB in capacity. I wanted to convert my Data drive
> into a disk that has
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:55 AM, wrote:
> PartitionMagic doesn't run on Windows Vista which is what I have. Also,
> space isn't an issue on the Data drive since it is completely clear (all
> 150 GB of it), so one drive has Windows installed on it with all of my
> personal data, and the other dri
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:35 AM, JD wrote:
>
>
> On 09/15/2010 12:56 PM, al...@math.binghamton.edu wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows
>> Vista installed on it, and another physical drive which is a Data drive,
>> each of them are 150 GB in
Reading the mixed bag of advice in this thread, I guess I'll jump in
and spread my own brand of opinions disguised as advice.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:56 AM, wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows
> Vista installed on it, and another physical
al...@math.binghamton.edu wrote:
> Does anyone
> know of a way to distinguish between the two, or can anyone help me
> through this process?
I know exactly what you are talking about. I have 2 identical hard drives,
both 300GB, and the installer shows both as the same and asks which I would
lik
On 09/17/2010 01:12 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 05:54 PM, JD wrote:
>> On 09/15/2010 01:55 PM, al...@math.binghamton.edu wrote:
>>
>>> PartitionMagic doesn't run on Windows Vista which is what I have. Also,
>>> space isn't an issue on the Data drive since it is completely clear (all
On 09/17/2010 01:07 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 04:35 PM, JD wrote:
>> Do you have PartitionMagic?
>> If so, you can use it to compact both disks, and shrink the
>> partition size (graphically) and leave room for Linux.
>> Should not need more than 8GB for linux and 2GB for swap.
>>
On 09/15/2010 05:54 PM, JD wrote:
>
> On 09/15/2010 01:55 PM, al...@math.binghamton.edu wrote:
>
>> PartitionMagic doesn't run on Windows Vista which is what I have. Also,
>> space isn't an issue on the Data drive since it is completely clear (all
>> 150 GB of it), so one drive has Windows inst
On 09/15/2010 04:35 PM, JD wrote:
> Do you have PartitionMagic?
> If so, you can use it to compact both disks, and shrink the
> partition size (graphically) and leave room for Linux.
> Should not need more than 8GB for linux and 2GB for swap.
> If you plan to install a lot of software packages, and
On 09/15/2010 01:55 PM, al...@math.binghamton.edu wrote:
> PartitionMagic doesn't run on Windows Vista which is what I have. Also,
> space isn't an issue on the Data drive since it is completely clear (all
> 150 GB of it), so one drive has Windows installed on it with all of my
> personal data,
PartitionMagic doesn't run on Windows Vista which is what I have. Also,
space isn't an issue on the Data drive since it is completely clear (all
150 GB of it), so one drive has Windows installed on it with all of my
personal data, and the other drive has literally nothing on it (which is
the drive
On 09/15/2010 12:56 PM, al...@math.binghamton.edu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows
> Vista installed on it, and another physical drive which is a Data drive,
> each of them are 150 GB in capacity. I wanted to convert my Data drive
> into
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