I recently got majorly f***ed over by the disc shop and in setting up a new drive rather then creating a 30 gig partition like asked they created a 5 gig one which surprise surprise is full already.

My question is i have heard there is programs you can get to change the size of a partition, would someone be able to help me out with this, all help is greatly appreciated.

Partition Magic can do this.

Partition Magic from Norton does the trick as does Acronis Disk Director

Wow they sure did totaly f*** you over there man!

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

If it's only 5Gb there cant be that much stuff installed so why not blow it all away and start from fresh?

^^ partion magic will take 5mins to do. a reinstall would be alot longer.

If it's only 5Gb there cant be that much stuff installed so why not blow it all away and start from fresh?

5GB of hand-picked porn could be quite important for some people.

^^ partion magic will take 5mins to do. a reinstall would be alot longer.

No, partition magic will go horribly wrong, and lose your partition table information on you. The magic is the disappearing data!

^^ im with scuzzy on this, changing your partitions without backing up is risky, and if your gonna backup you may as well reinstall... hell, you could always just ghost the partition, and restore it to a larger sized one if you really wanted to avoid reinstalling

The magic is the disappearing data!

haha nice one big guy :)

Wow they sure did totaly f*** you over there man!

Well actually dude they really did f*** me over, what happened was my comp was playing up so i took it in to get fixed they told me that my 60 gig hd had died (i had a 60 and a 120 at the time) so they managed to back up everything from the 60 to a 200 i had put in. Problem was i then went home and it wouldnt read my 120, soooo i had to take it back again and they said because it was set up as a dynamic drive or some s*** the 120 relied on the 60 to run. So they took everything off the 120 and wiped the drive and then went to put it back on, heres we they f***up happens. The f***ing wangs must have had two backup drives with my name on it and they f***ing put the data they had backed up from my 60 onto my 120. By the time i got home realised and called them they had deleted my 120 data, bang there goes 13 000 songs, over 1000 film clips, assignments, audio works in progress, everything, f***ing gone over a stupid f***ing mistake.

/anger.

this is why i learned to do my own pc maintenance

I bet you signed a form when you booked it in saying they cannot be held responsible for any form of data loss.

Sure someone f***ed up buy by signing that book in form you just waived any kind of responsibility they may have had on your data.


If you didn't sign something like that I would be very suprised...

In the end it really is the end users responsibility to back their s*** up. I have had so many customers crying about the data they lost when their HDD packed it in bigtime, hopefully they have learnt a valuable lesson...

Moral of the story is if the data is important to you back it the f*** up!

i have used partion magic many times and never ever had a problem.

In the end it really is the end users responsibility to back their s*** up. I have had so many customers crying about the data they lost when their HDD packed it in bigtime, hopefully they have learnt a valuable lesson..

i agree, but NOT when you CHRAGE people to do the back up then the person is paying for the service and you better not f*** it up.
i dont know if the disk shop do charge for back ups but im assuming they do since they are rip off's

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Im gonna guess your next argument is "thats retarded I can't backup all my mp3's/movies/(porn)"

Back up your photos, assignments/documents to a DVDRW every month or so thats a no brainer. The rest Im sure amongst your friends some are going to share similar tastes in music etc and you'd probably be able to get 90% of the stuff back from all of them. I know that would work for me. Only problem is if you haven't got any :P

^^nope im just saying if you PAY someone to do a service i would asume that you would want it done correctly.

Yeah well mistakes happen, if you have ever seen inside a service/tech room it can get pretty hectic when s*** just keeps rolling in.

In DW's case it just sounds like the tech had NFI what they were doing :/