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Basic newbie repartitioning with PM questions

Asked by zalman00 in Operating Systems Miscellaneous

Hi fellows & gals , I am ready to finally take the plunge
I just bought a 160 gig seagate usb 2 hdd and a box with ghost 9.0 and a box with partition magic at B.B this afternoon and I will attempt to decrease the size of my E partition 131 gig and increase the size of my primary C drive 10 gig
I have a 250 gig hardrive and besides the primary C , I have an E 130 gig , a D70 gig and an F 24 gig ,all in an extended partition , I want to make this as fool proff and as simple as I humanly can first I will uninstall everything from the E D F partition , scan disc and defrag and get the c drive down to 8 gig from 8.5 gig used space in 9.75 gig C drive
The technition at B.B told me he used P M 8.0 to partition his hardrive and he had some sort of disaster take place and he offered me this advice
1- Tell partition magic to delete the C drive
So I guess I will have to restore C if I am successful using ghost 9 along with the usb hdd
2- Tell partition magic to delete the130 gig E partition after deleting the C partition ( F is empty)
I will then have 140 gig of unallocated space
3- Then create a new C primary drive about 30 to 40 gig at the most ( I guess PM will do that automatically ?)
4- create your E drive again making it 100 to 110 gig
{ could I make an additional partition each 50 gig ?} just wondering ?
He said another E partition again would automatically go into the extended partition
Then set the bios to boot from cd
And this is the part which I could not understand , I asked him over and over but I dont know enough about this stuff to understand his explanation , and I wish someone could explain it to me so its understandable to me , this is what he said to do ( his exact words)
Boot from the partition magic cd , do not under any circumstances boot from windows
And I would imagine restore C contents ( ghost image on usb hdd?) would be the next thing to do ?
Not having ever used partition magic , I can not concepualize what he means by boot from PM cd and not from windows and why not boot from windows and what does boot from partition magic vrs booting from windows actually mean mean .. I do not understand any part of that statement

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Basic newbie repartitioning with PM questions

Asked by zalman00 in Operating Systems Miscellaneous

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