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Partitioning Software
I need to add a HD to a Dell 2350 so that I can keep an image of the base system for backup on a system that doesn't get the maintenance (security updates, anti-v files, etc.) it really needs. From what I can see, I cannot really add a separate physical HD. I didn't look to see before I went and bought a new drive.
I'd like to remove the original drive and install the new drive with at least two, maybe three, partitions. If I use only 2 partitions, the second will hold an image of the first and perhaps backups. If I have 3 partitions, then I'd use one for the primary image and backups, and one for all data. By having smaller logical drives I hope the system will be defragged more often.
I have two questions:
- What partitioning software do you like the most? My local stores carry Norton Partition Magic 8.0 and VCOM Partition Commander 9.0.
- If I separate the data, where in the XP setup do I tell it to put "My Documents" on a particular disk (ie. partition)?
Thanks for your help!
Message Edited by artesian79 on 11-04-2005 08:39 PM
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Posted November 5th, 2005 01:00
When you say " I have moved "My Documents" from its default location on C:\ (Documents and Settings\Denny's Documents) to D:\. " where do I define the "mount point?" to XP, or are you saying to just drag and drop it? If it is just a drag and drop, will XP and the associated software always use the D: drive or can some things assume c:?I have a need to repartition 2 systems that are up and running so I'd like to use some 3rd party software that lets me do this w/o destroying the contents of the current partition.Elsewhere I just read about something called Hiren's BootCD. Have you heard of it? I'm concerned about legality even though the link I found about it said that all the software was free or demo and therefore legal.To me it feels too good to be true so I thought I'd check it out on this board.Hiren's BootCD 7.4 + Keyboard Patch
All in one DOS bootable CD. The new version 7.4 is out! include the keyboard patch!" Must Have! - Download Now
All in one Dos Bootable CD which has all these utilities
Partition Tools
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Partition Magic Pro 8.05 Best software to partition hard drive
Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 Popular disk management functions in a single suite
Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1057 Universal tool for partitions
Partition Commander 9.01 The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature
Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.
The Partition Resizer v1.3.4 move and resize your partitions in one step and more.
Smart Fdisk 2.05 a simple harddisk partition manager
SPecial Fdisk 2000 SPFDISK a partition tool.
eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3 XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition
GDisk 1.1.1 Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more.
Disk Clone Tools
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ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002) Best software to clone hard drive
Norton Ghost 8.2 Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)
Acronis True Image 8.0 Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning
Partition Saver 2.80 A tool to backup/restore partitions.
Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus 3.16b Very good virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)
McAfee Antivirus 4.40 a virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)
Recovery Tools
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Active Partition Recovery 3.0 To Recover a Deleted partition.
Active Uneraser 3.0 To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems.
Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.10 To Recover data that has been deleted/virus attack
Winternals Disk Commander 1.1 more than just a standard deleted-file recovery utility
TestDisk 5.8 Tool to check and undelete partition.
Lost & Found 1.06 a good old data recovery software.
DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100 An excellent data recovery software.
Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64 Another excellent data recovery software with many other options.
Testing Tools
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System Speed Test 4.78 it tests CPU, harddrive, ect.
PC-Check 5.50 Easy to use hardware tests
Ontrack Data Advisor 5.0 Powerful diagnostic tool for assessing the condition of your computer
The Troubleshooter 7.02 all kind of hardware testing tool
PC Doctor 3.0 a benchmarking and information tool
Test Cpu/Video/Disk 5.6 a tool to test cpu, video, and disk
Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0 a tool to test Hard Disk Drive
RAM (Memory) Testing Tools
DocMemory 2.2b RAM Test utility
GoldMemory 5.07 RAM Test utility
Memtest86+ 1.60 PC Memory Test
Hard Disk Tools
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Hard Disk Diagnostic Utilities
Seagate Seatools Desktop Edition 3.02Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools
Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04c
Maxtor PowerMax 4.21
Maxtor amset utility 4.0
Maxtor(or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1
Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.30
Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0
Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 1.28
Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28
IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.04
IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.80
Gateway GwScan 3.15
MHDD 4.5
HDD Regenerator 1.51 to recover a bad hard drive
Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57 Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.
Norton Disk Doctor 2002 a tool to repair a damaged disk, or to diagnose your hard drive.
Norton Disk Editor 2002 a powerful disk editing, manual data recovery tool.
Active Kill Disk 1.1 Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.
SmartUDM 2.00 Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.
System Information Tools
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Aida16 2.12 a system information tool, extracts details of all components of the PC
PCI and AGP info Tool The PCI System information & Exploration tool.
System Analyser version 5.3j View extensive information about your hardware
Navrátil Software System Information 0.58.6 High-end professional system information tool
Astra 5.10 Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant
HwInfo 4.9.7 a powerful system information utility
PC-Config 9.33 Complete hardware detection of your computer
SysChk 2.46 Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC
CPU Identification utility v1.8 Detailed information on CPU
CTIA CPU Information another CPU information tool
MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools
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MBR Work 1.07b a utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions
MBR Tool 2.1.100 backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write...
DiskMan4 all in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more
BootFix Utility Run this utility if you get 'Invalid system disk'
MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1 BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR
Boot Partition 2.50 add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader
Partition Table Doctor 3.0 a tool to repair/modify mbr, bootsector, partition table
Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1 a multi boot manager
Bootmagic 8.0 This tool is for multi boot operating systems
BIOS / CMOS Tools
CMOS 0.93 CMOS Save / Restore Tool
BIOS Cracker 4.6 BIOS password remover (cmospwd)
BIOS Cracker 1.4 BIOS password remover (cmospwc)
BIOS Utility 1.35.0 BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more.
BIOS 3.20 a powerfull utility for bios and cmos
DISKMAN4 a powerful all in one utility
UniFlash 1.40 bios flash utility
Kill CMOS a tiny utility to wipe cmos
MultiMedia Tools
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Picture Viewer 1.94 Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes.
QuickView Pro 2.54 movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx.
MpxPlay 1.15 a small Music Player for dos
.
Password Tools
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Active Password Changer 2.1 To Reset User Password on windows NT/2000/XP/2003 (FAT/NTFS)
Offline NT/2K/XP Password Changer utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.
NTPWD utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.
NTFS Tools
NTFS Dos Pro 5.0 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
NTFS 4 Dos 1.4 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
NTFS Dos 3.02 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
EditBINI 1.01 to Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition
Dos File Managers
Volkov Commander 4.99 Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support
(Similar to Norton Commander)
Dos Command Center 5.1 Classic dos-based file manager.
File Wizard 1.35 a file manager - colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc.
File Maven 3.5 an advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file
transfers via serial or parallel cable
FastLynx 2.0 Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability
LapLink 5.0 the smart way to transfer files and directories between PCs.
Mini Windows 3.11 Back to old days, use it as a file manager
Mini Windows 98 Can run from Ram Drive, with ntfs support,
Added 7-Zip which supports .7z .zip .cab .rar .arj .gzip,
.bzip2 .z .tar .cpio .rpm and .deb
Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor,
Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc...
Other Tools
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Ghost Walker 2003.793 utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP
DosCDroast beta 2 Dos CD Burning Tools
Universal TCP/IP Network 5.4 MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based
network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based
network, it contains 85 different network card drivers
Dos Tools
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USB CD-Rom Driver 1 Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive
Universal USB Driver 2 Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage
Interlnk support at COM1 To access another computer from COM port
Interlnk support at LPT1 To access another computer from LPT port
and too many great dos tools very good collection of dos utilities
extract.exe pkzip.exe pkunzip.exe unrar.exe rar.exe
ace.exe lha.exe gzip.exe uharcd.exe mouse.com
attrib.com deltree.exe xcopy.exe diskcopy.com imgExtrc.exe
undelete.com edit.com fdisk.exe fdisk2.exe fdisk3.exe
lf.exe delpart.exe wipe.com zap.com format.com
move.exe more.com find.exe hex.exe debug.exe
split.exe mem.exe mi.com sys.com smartdrv.exe
xmsdsk.exe killer.exe share.exe scandisk.exe scanreg.exe
guest.exe doskey.exe duse.exe biosdtct.exe setver.exe
ntersvr.exe interlnk.exe loadlin.exe lfndos.exe doslfn.com
Windows Tools
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SpaceMonger 1.4 keeping track of the free space on your computer
Drive Temperature 1.0 Hard Disk Drive temperature meter
Disk Speed1.0 Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool
MemTest 1.0 a Memory Testing Tool
PageDfrg 2.3 System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP
Split Join 1.3.3 a Small File Split-Join Tool
Ghost Image Explorer 7.0 to add/remove/extract files from Ghost image file
DriveImage Explorer 5.0 to add/remove/extract files from Drive image file
Drive SnapShot 1.36 creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.
Active Undelete 5.0 a tool to recover deleted files
Restoration 2.5.14 a tool to recover deleted files
Startup Control Panel 2.8 a tool to edit startup programs
Startup Monitor 1.02 it notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup
IB Process Manager 1.02 a little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc.
HijackThis 1.99 a general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more
CurrPort 1.07 displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your computer
Unknown Devices 1.2 helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are
PCI 32 Sniffer 1.1 device information tool (similar to unknown devices)
Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06 find and remove spyware, adware, dialers etc. (a must have tool)865
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Posted November 5th, 2005 02:00
artesian79,
To move My Documents right-click on the display at the top of Windows Explorer and on the Target tab you can specify the location to which you want the folder moved.
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Posted November 5th, 2005 16:00
artesian79,
For each account, log into that account and perform the move of My Documents to D:\. The partitioning takes place during the installation. See the reference to Step 5 in this document.
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Posted November 5th, 2005 16:00
It just struck me that this only takes care of the single userid, not all of them on the system. Is there an easy way to have them all (even those to be defined in the future) on d:?
I do have one system that I'm putting a new drive in a rebuilding from scratch. I just went to Help to find info on using XP's partitioning, but cannot find anything. What am I missing? I'm assuming this needs to be done before the complete install of XP, or I won't be able to make any changes since the entire drive will be the boot drive.
Message Edited by artesian79 on 11-05-2005 12:31 PM
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Posted April 25th, 2011 03:00
Wow, nice sharing information that helped me a lot.O(∩_∩)O~
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Posted April 25th, 2011 11:00
Posting on a six year old discussion is both useless and can only be spam.
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Posted November 5th, 2005 00:00
What partitioning software do you like the most? My local stores carry Norton Partition Magic 8.0 and VCOM Partition Commander 9.0. If you are going to be installing Windows XP use the partitioning capability of the installation to set up your partitions. No third-party software is needed.
If I separate the data, where in the XP setup do I tell it to put "My Documents" on a particular disk (ie. partition)? I have two partitions, C:\ is for the operating system and applications, D:\ is for data. I have moved "My Documents" from its default location on C:\ (Documents and Settings\Denny's Documents) to D:\.