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Abush
March 25th, 2003, 16:01
Hello,
Right now I have two OS on my desktop Win. 98 on C and XP on D.
I want to know if it is possible to do three OS on one computer.
How can I partition the C drive in two so I can put Win 2000 on the new partition.
If you need info. on my computer it is a
Compaq 7478
Processor x86 Family 5 Model 8 Stepping 12 AuthenticAMD ~533 Mhz
and the slowest computer on earth (next to the one computer in school)AHHHHHHHH how I hate my computer.:angry2: :angry2: :angry2: :angry2: Help???
Daniel
March 25th, 2003, 16:32
It's possible.

Just use partition magic and seperate the C partition into 2 other partitions.
n7of9
March 26th, 2003, 02:42
^^what daniel said...but i'd like to know...WHY??
Bruce
March 26th, 2003, 05:07
Originally posted by n7of9
[BWHY?? [/B] Because you can.
is0lized
March 26th, 2003, 05:47
What's the max on the number of os's you can have? Like 1000 or so? Or just till you run out of space?
ducktape
March 26th, 2003, 09:45
yeah basically until you run out of space
Abush
March 26th, 2003, 11:49
I want to have 3 OS because I want to see which is faster and I can't take the chance of loosing my stuff when I put a new OS on the old one. I'll try to upgrade from 98 to 2000 if it doesn't work I'll just have three of them running.:D
Abush
March 26th, 2003, 11:50
btw Bruce how was the concert March 19 passed a long time ago????
Bruce
March 26th, 2003, 13:42
Originally posted by abush
btw Bruce how was the concert March 19 passed a long time ago???? See here: http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=41414

Yeah, I know my sig needs updating.
Abush
March 29th, 2003, 13:57
is there any place I can find PartitionMagic for free??
Coolin
March 29th, 2003, 14:43
Not legally.
Electromage
April 8th, 2003, 01:46
Originally posted by Coolin
Not legally.

That's not really true, It depends on where you are in the world, 4 example, in this months "Australian PC Authority" mag there's a copy of "PartitionMagic 6" Free with registration, so keep lookin on PC mags cover disks & it could be found!! :p
Robert
April 8th, 2003, 10:03
Originally posted by Electromage
That's not really true, It depends on where you are in the world, 4 example, in this months "Australian PC Authority" mag there's a copy of "PartitionMagic 6" Free with registration, so keep lookin on PC mags cover disks & it could be found!! :p

Uhh.. than it's not free.
Electromage
April 9th, 2003, 04:38
It is if your buying the mag 4 the content & get what you want on the CD as a bonus, besides $7.50au is alot cheaper than the store price of the program!!:book:
netnexus
April 9th, 2003, 11:41
why not jsut use fdisk?
notnamed
April 9th, 2003, 16:10
Because fdisk will destroy your data when it deletes the partition tables, maybe? :p PartitionMagic supposedly doesn't, but they reccomend a backup anyway.