The next EDCUG meeting
 will be held at the
Placerville Seventh Day Adventist Church
 on February 6, 2012

Create Partitions / Back up Data

Monday night will be a workshop wherein we will change the partitioning scheme of a typical new computer to a more user-friendly scheme.

We have one new desktop computer that needs to be repartitioned. Since the main object of the meeting is to learn the partitioning process, we will eliminate trialware, update Windows, add major applications such as Office, Quicken, etc. and install security products before the meeting. We will skip setting up a new computer.

At the meeting we will have the hardware and software available to partition a Windows PC. We will repartition the new desktop computer and create our own system backup at the end of the program.

Depending upon the state of your computers we could partition others at the meeting. Send me a Belarc report by email if you are interested in bringing a computer to the meeting. Your Belarc report will help us determine what extra hardware and time might be required.

For members and guests who want to attend the early session, I will have a short graphical program discussing the basics of what it means to partition and format hard drives. This will be a good warmup for the main program, wherein we will show you how to partition and format drives.

Cheers,

Dave Leippe