Vista’s “Disk Management” tool (Control Panel: Administrative Tools: Computer Management: Storage: Disk Management) is fairly easy to use for removing and creating partitions (even for external drives), “Swissknife” is a good third party application that has the added benefit of being able to format partitions as FAT32 so that they can be read by Macs or earlier MS operating systems that don’t like NTFS (which is the native format for XP/Vista).

However, given that you’ve got an older drive that’s been sitting around for a while and considering that the cost of larger capacity hard drives is very reasonable (you can get a 1 Tb drive for £55), I’d be more inclined to buy a new hard drive for external storage to reduce the risk of the older one expiring.

Who does them at £55? My £62 was at 7dayshop.

“bad” and “morally correct” is in the eye of the beholder, and the “bad” guys you refer to believe that their god is on their side and our side, or the “west” or however you chose to label it are the infidel.

Just getting “bigger guns” means that the other side will as well, its called an arms race and humanity has been there, done that at massive cost in lives and finance and to the detriment of other needs such as health etc.

OK, if you are forced to go to War, who’s side are you going? We WILL win this war, we WILL support the US and the other nations in doing so.
The enemy of the Planet is the anti-west terrorist. The west are running this world, like it or not. I’ve been around it enough times to see that these sideline belief systems very quickly get forgotten once a bit of civilisation/money is available. This leaves the extremists hanging onto the old ways and blaming the west for the corruption of their life (YAWN!). It is in fact the East that pulls the western ways in, we don’t force it on them.

The best tool for this is “Partition Magic”. It isn’t a freeware though. Do a google, there may be offers.

Using the HDD as an external backup is exactly what I do, I bought the lead(s) to USB and a Terrabyte HDD. The HDD was £62, outrageously cheap. The beauty of those leads is that you can have dozens of external HDD’s if you wish, far cheaper than a pukka external drive.
Nowthen, if you use it as a backup (Proper incremental backup not just copy/paste) then beware of backing up anything from the C partition drive. The PC sees the C: root and isn’t sure if that’s it’s start-up source. It then won’t uninstall using the usual USB eject process. My PC HDD is C for Software, D for Myware and E for anything that talks to the web. The C holds my faves and desktop and that’s all I added (From C) to my backup, causing the slight fault as above.

The Taliban almost certainly say that, too.

It’s so ironic you could stick a fridge magnet to it, honestly.

Or perhaps the “Front Office” – unlike the “Back Office” and one or two members of this forum – doesn’t have a vested interest in the perpetuation and proliferation of armed conflict?

Just a thought, like.

Nowt wrong with protecting my mortgage! And being on the correct side helps too.
Kev 35, I am only extreme in the eyes of liberal pinko’s that don’t like shooty gunny stuff. Well, hard luck to them….the bad guys have guns so the morally correct need and deserve bigger guns.

I’m sure the Taliban say much the same thing, old shape.

In the meantime, the dying continues unabated……

Ah, but we are right, they are not. And I don’t really need to debate it further, I hold no sympathy for the enemies of the West and any supporters of anti west terrorism.

The US “Back office” has definately got ideas on a major change in Iran, the sooner the better in my opinion. Trouble is, in the “Front Office” there is a coward.

Windows explorer 8.
I don’t really have any problems with it. Default to Google and I can find whatever I want.
My Virus protection is Sophos, the bogs dollax I believe so I’m comfortable surfing in uncharted waters.

Say what you like about Billy and MS, but his products satisfy 90% of users. Within the other 10% are usually specialist requirements in CAD/CAM etc. And people who don’t like BillyG.