Computers
Time for a new one ! Print
Written by Eric   
Monday, 03 March 2008 00:00

The time has arrived. My PC needs an upgrade, but what does that involve? Well stick around and I'll share what it means to me. I realised the other day that all the PC's we have ever had at home have been home built. The first was built by a friend, the second by me, now this needs an upgrade and I still feel it's the way to go for

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Gparted - an open source alternative to Partition Magic. Print
Written by Eric   
Sunday, 10 February 2008 00:00

Here's the situation. The 80Gb harddisk in my wife's Acer laptop came configured as two FAT32 partitions. The reason Acer did this was because the supplied backup solution was only capable of reading and writing to FAT32 filesystems. The second drive was used to store the backups, and to me, having a backup on the same physical disk is no backup at all.

So I need to reformat the C: drive to NTFS, delete the D: drive then re-size the C: partition to use the free space previously occupied by D:.

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