Disk Partitions

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Andrew

I want to create an additional partition on my HD to
trick a program into thinking it is the CD-Rom drive.
Can't for the life of me see how to do this. Window
Manager suggest you can but can't seem to

help please
 
XP can only do this if there is free unpartitioned free space available on
the hard drive. Other than that, you would need third party software such
as Symantec/PowerQuest's Partition Magic:
www.powerquest.com.
 
Andrew, to do this you need a program called Virtual CD. It can create
as many virtual CD drives as you have available letters. A demo can be
found at any good download site. I use it for programs that require a
CD to be inserted to be able to run the program.

Example: With Virtual CD I created an image on my hard drive of
Encyclopedia Britannica DVD, inserted it into a virtual CD drive,
installed the program from there and never need the actual CD-DVD to run
the program. Now I can multitask such programs without playing musical
disks.

Bob


message | XP can only do this if there is free unpartitioned free space
available on
| the hard drive. Other than that, you would need third party software
such
| as Symantec/PowerQuest's Partition Magic:
| www.powerquest.com.
|
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| | >I want to create an additional partition on my HD to
| > trick a program into thinking it is the CD-Rom drive.
| > Can't for the life of me see how to do this. Window
| > Manager suggest you can but can't seem to
| >
| > help please
|
|
 
You don't need to spend money to do that - google for bootitng and d/load
the utility and follow the instructions included. I've re-sized and
re-partitioned my disks many times and have never lost any data. You should
back up anything you really don't want to lose before you experiment,
though.
brian
 
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