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question about partitioning 'safely'

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sk33

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Ok.. here is my situation:

I have a centrino laptop here with a 40gig HD. My mother's workplace, when she took it there, for some reason took out winXP and put in win2000 (because they need some program that only works in win2000 for research they are doing). However, this totally pisses me off because I want my wireless networking for working on the laptop when it's at home.

The laptop currently has only one HD partition - the full 40 or so gigs as C drive. I want to know if it's possible to SAFELY and without endangering system stability (because if this program/win2000 get erased, i'll be screwed)... partition out the drive for the time being to 10 or so gigs for another drive to install winXP on... and then later when they no longer need win2000, to reformat everything back together to only one partition and do a fresh install of XP?

So basically.. I want a temporary partition done now without losing what I currently have. Is this possible? How? thanks in advance.
 
it's a family laptop. she's using it for work, however.. research thing.
 
Partition Magic can do that. Resize the existing partition, create a new partition in the (now empty) space, and install XP into it. I don't know about wiping 2000 later; you'd probably have to reinstall XP.
 
I too would recommend Partition Magic
with these cautions
there is the potential for it to go badly
so make the rescue disks
and perform only one task at a time
(resize, reboot, move, reboot ect)
and regardless of how long it takes dont shutdown in the middle of it

Ideally you would image the HDD first with Ghost just in case
(say over your network)

Id say that of the 35 or so times Ive used Partition Magic only once did it go wrong, and that was probably because I was trying to do too many things at once ;)

(options like merge and redistribute freespace are probably more risky than a simple resize, which is fairly pedestrian proceedure that I perform on a regular basis without incident)
 
yeah for sure, partition magic can do that for you saftely if you do it right. Just make sure whatever you do, put the 2nd partition AFTER C and NOT before it!!! And you'll be all good. Bascially just know that this IS NOT one program that you want to skip out from on reading the readme and help files!! Do that and you're golden. Great program, A+ in my book!
 
thanks for the input guys. I actually solved the problem with some help.. found an app that successfully enabled wireless networking in win2000.,., so I can tolerate this for another few weeks till I can toss it out :)
 
who knows it might grow on you
I run W2K, and perfer it to XP
 
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