Re: Partitioning a disk with data on it

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From: Gordon Laurie
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <B0C32DED9668EE8F5@lovejoy.demon.co.uk>,
ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk (Ben Lovejoy) wrote:

>>Next time you're up here, I'll back up your HD onto a CD for you and then
>>you can partition the thing, you can buy the beer while we're waiting.
>>How's that?
>
>Sounds like an excellent idea, though at CD speeds that could be an awful
>lot of beer. :-)

>How does this business work in regards to the System Folder? Can I delete
>it, format and partition the drive, reboot from a SyQuest/CD and then just
>copy the System Folder back?

It would be quite a lot of beer in any case %-)

Yes. Basically that works. I have a nice, clean well sorted out System
folder that I keep on a CD and if (when) the machine gets its knickers
really twisted I just restart from a floppy, trash the old System folder
and drag that one back onto the HD. Even MS Office keeps working with it!

Gordon

One of these days I'm going to think of a decent sig line

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Date: 1997/12/22
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