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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.campus.mci.net!not-for-mail From: Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partitioning the hard drive. Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:25:30 -0600 Organization: CampusMCI Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3289157A.2D52@auburn.campus.mci.net> References: <55tsdu$8t1@news.skylink.net> Reply-To: ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net NNTP-Posting-Host: s23-pm03.auburn.campus.mci.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) As I understand it, there are relatively safe (yet disclaimer-laden) programs to repartition a harddrive without destroying existing data. My dual-partition system hasn't whimpered yet, though I split a virgin drive into two partitions, knowing I'd be trying out Win95 & FreeBSD on my new PC. Search for "partition" at www.shareware.com for some programs (since I don't know any offhand), virus-check 'em & (after backing up your system), try it. Anthony phattman@Phatt.daddy wrote: > > I've just gotten interested in using FreeBSD and I'm a little sketchy > on how to install it. You need to have like a whole new partition for > it but i've heard stories about people partitioning hard drives and it > hasn't worked for the best. Is there a safe way to partition the hard > drive or an easy way? I run windows 95 and I want to put it on the > same hard drive. If you partition the hard drive and it screws up > somehow, does it affect the other files, i.e. corrupt them, denying > access to them, lose them, can't get into system or something? > > ddixon@skylink.net