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Originally Posted by Plaid13
a program called partition magic will do what you want. its made by the same people that make nortan antivirus. it allows you to add partitions to drives without loosing any data. I havnt used that program myself but a friend of mine has used it and loved it.
as for the slave drive if windows isnt installed on it theres no reason you should even mess with it. i us 2 hard drives just for that reason. one i just use for storage and one i install stuff on. the storage drive im using now has been through half a dozen wipes of the main hard drive. so yeah when you go to format your hard drive just dont format the slave drive. just to be safe you might even want to take it out so you dont accedently format the wrong one. then just reinstall it after you get windows working again.
just a thought but have you tried booting windows into safe mode? maybe something its trying to load is crashing it. If that dosnt help it might not be windows thats messed up. it might be something like bad ram or a faulty hard drive.
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Partition magic is magic, until it curses you. I highly recommend NEVER using partition magic on a drive that you don’t have a back up of, when it screws up; it hoses everything making data retrieval impossible for most data and extremely hard for the rest. This is not to say that partition magic does not do a good job when it works, I use it allot but I first back up a drive before using it.
My recommendation is to boot with the UBCD and copy the 20 gig to the 300 gig and then reinstall on the 20 gig. Or better yet, buy a new SATA 80 gig Seagate and install on it, then copy the old files back.