Thank you for contacting the Dell Community Forums. If you want to split your existing 200 GB hard drive into smaller drives without having to reinstall your operating system, applications, etc., you will probably have to use a 3rd-party application like Partition Magic. That's not supported by Dell, but may help you split your partition into smaller ones for data backup or other purposes. As for installing your software in Windows 7: The first thing to do is see if the vendor offers a Windows 7-compatible version of their software. If they do, obtain that and install it. If they don't, you can try running setup for the application in compatibility mode, to see if that allows you to complete the installation. The Skype forums actually have a thread on the error you described. You may want to take a look at it to see if that helps resolve your issue.
You should not use a partition on your hard drive for backups. It would be a complete waste of time and effort. You need to backup to a diff separate drive, not a partition. When the hard drive fails--and it will sooner or later--your backup partition fails, too, so it's useless. Buy either a second internal hard drive or even better--an external hard drive for backups.
You should not use a partition on your hard drive for backups. It would be a complete waste of time and effort. You need to backup to a diff separate drive, not a partition. When the hard drive fails--and it will sooner or later--your backup partition fails, too, so it's useless.
Indeed Mary.
And it's for precisely that reason, I can't understand why Dell only offer a 'Recovery' partition, rather than a 'Recovery' disc :emotion-55:
It wouldn't be quite so bad, if you could create your own recovery disc, using files from the recovery partition, but that's not possible either.
So... unless you create your own image of the hard drive... assuming you know how to do so in the first place of course - which users new to computers won't, you're in a lot of trouble when the hard drive fails :emotion-43:
thanks that saved my dell on call charges for partition... cool I will install XP on external disk and use compatible softwares rather then formatting.
DELL-Chris Bu
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December 2nd, 2009 11:00
dipesh2603,
Thank you for contacting the Dell Community Forums. If you want to split your existing 200 GB hard drive into smaller drives without having to reinstall your operating system, applications, etc., you will probably have to use a 3rd-party application like Partition Magic. That's not supported by Dell, but may help you split your partition into smaller ones for data backup or other purposes. As for installing your software in Windows 7: The first thing to do is see if the vendor offers a Windows 7-compatible version of their software. If they do, obtain that and install it. If they don't, you can try running setup for the application in compatibility mode, to see if that allows you to complete the installation. The Skype forums actually have a thread on the error you described. You may want to take a look at it to see if that helps resolve your issue.
Mary G
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December 2nd, 2009 12:00
You should not use a partition on your hard drive for backups. It would be a complete waste of time and effort. You need to backup to a diff separate drive, not a partition. When the hard drive fails--and it will sooner or later--your backup partition fails, too, so it's useless. Buy either a second internal hard drive or even better--an external hard drive for backups.
TheRealFireblad
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December 3rd, 2009 11:00
Indeed Mary.
And it's for precisely that reason, I can't understand why Dell only offer a 'Recovery' partition, rather than a 'Recovery' disc :emotion-55:
It wouldn't be quite so bad, if you could create your own recovery disc, using files from the recovery partition, but that's not possible either.
So... unless you create your own image of the hard drive... assuming you know how to do so in the first place of course - which users new to computers won't, you're in a lot of trouble when the hard drive fails :emotion-43:
dipesh2603
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December 3rd, 2009 12:00
thanks that saved my dell on call charges for partition... cool I will install XP on external disk and use compatible softwares rather then formatting.
I hope this is fine.
dipesh
dipesh2603
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December 3rd, 2009 12:00
Thanks that idea of a new folder worked fine.