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Most likely to a folder it creates....the best spot for this would be another partition/drive.
Do you have more than one drive/partition ? ?Quote from: GX1_Man on May 15, 2007, 05:31:15 PM

Watch the video:

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

If that doesn't answer it, send them an e-mail.
Quote from: delluser07 on May 17, 2007, 08:43:25 AM
I couldn't find their email address either to ask.

Quote from: patio on May 17, 2007, 04:46:32 PM
Most likely to a folder it creates....the best spot for this would be another partition/drive.
Do you have more than one drive/partition ? ?

There is only 1 partition for the drive of 60gb.

I have run the demo for GetDataBack and it seems to be finding a lot of files from previous partitions, so hopefully I can recover as much as possible.http://www.grc.com/cs/licenseinfo.htm

There is the money back guarantee and an e-mail address.OK, Thanks.Well I got really lucky as GetDataBack recovered most of the important files I had on the deleted partitions.

As the 160gb hard drive itself is in good condition, it currently has a 10gb partition with 140gb unallocated space. As I have BACKED up my recovered data to a different drive, would there be a problem if I was to delete this 10gb partition and recreate and format a new 100gb partition using Disk Management.

My current C: drive is the drive I have backed up data to but is very slow, and the 160gb drive is set as a slave.If you have backups of everything you need from the 160 then delete all partitions and set new ones that are more manageable such as 80/80 or 40/120 or whatever...
Make sure to make the first partition active and if it's going to run XP 20G should be a bare minimum...

Once done with that then use the 160 drive manuf. utilitities to "clone" the other drive to the first partition of the 160...

Then remove the master/OLD drive and set the 160 as master...

You will now be booting to an exact replica of your old C: drive but with a slight performance boost since the 160 is probably a tad faster.

You can then after testing everything WORKS correctly you can format the old drive and use it as a slave storage drive.And I would definitely check both drives with the free diagnostics at the appropriate drive maker's site.Thanks for the help!


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