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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	If your willing to spend money I would recommend that you buy a partitioning program, such as Partition Magic. Partition Magic allows your to resize a partition without losing data. If you don't want to spend any more cash or just like doing it the hard way you can use FDISK. FDISK comes with windows, use windows to make a boot disk and it will have it on there. FDISK is a destructive partitioner, so make sure that your drive is blank or free of anything you want to keep, because it will be gone. OK now onto what you might want to consider doing. Make the new drive your primary, I would think that it would be a faster drive therefore you would have better performance. Now you should split those 40gigs up. I would give windows about 2-3 gigs of space. Also on it's own partition make a 500MB swap file, this helps performance a little. You will have to figure out the rest. Now use that 4 gig drive as a backup. I really would recommend getting Partition Magic or something like it. That way if you need more space on a drive you can do it without losing your data. Loading...
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