Teica
Before you buy Partion Magic check out XP's Disk Mangement. It' FREE.
Right click MyComputer
select Manage
left click + at storage
select disk management
follow directions
or do with the command prompt as below
To create a partition or logical drive
You must be logged on as a computer administrator in order to complete this
procedure.
You can create up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions
and one extended partition.
Using a command line
Open Command Prompt.
Type:
diskpart
At the DISKPART prompt, type:
list disk
Make note of the disk number of the disk on which you want to create a
primary or extended partition.
At the DISKPART prompt, type:
select disk n
Select the disk n where you want to create the primary or extended
partition.
At the DISKPART prompt, type one of the following:
create partition primary [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]
or
create partition extended [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]
or
create partition logical [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]
Value Description
list disk Displays a list of disks and information about them, such as their
size, amount of available free space, whether the disk is a basic disk, and
whether the disk uses the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table
(GPT) partition style. The disk marked with an asterisk (*) has focus.
select disk Selects the specified disk, where n is the disk number, and
shifts the focus to it.
create partition primary Creates a primary partition on the current basic
disk. After you create the partition, the focus automatically shifts to the
new partition. The partition does not receive a drive letter; you must use
the assign command to assign a drive letter to the partition.
create partition extended Creates an extended partition on the current
drive. After the partition has been created, the focus automatically shifts
to the new partition. Only one extended partition can be created per disk.
This command fails if you attempt to create an extended partition within
another extended partition. You must create an extended partition before you
can create logical drives.
create partition logical Creates a logical drive in the extended partition.
After the partition has been created, the focus automatically shifts to the
new logical drive.
size=n The size of the partition in megabytes (MB). If no size is given, the
partition continues until there is no more unallocated space in the current
region. The size is cylinder snapped; the size is rounded to the closest
cylinder boundary. For example, if you specify a size of 500 MB, the
partition would be rounded up to 504 MB.
offset=n The byte offset at which to create the partition. If no offset is
given, the partition will start at the beginning of the first free space on
the disk. For master boot record (MBR) disks, the offset is cylinder
snapped; the offset is rounded to the closest cylinder boundary. For
example, if you specify an offset that is 27 MB and the cylinder size is 8
MB, the offset is rounded to the 24 MB boundary.
noerr For scripting only. When an error is encountered, specifies that
DiskPart continues to process commands as if the error did not occur.
Without the noerr parameter, an error causes DiskPart to exit with an error
code.
Notes
You must be logged on as a computer administrator in order to complete this
procedure.
To open command prompt, click Start, point to All Programs, point to
Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
You can create up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions
and one extended partition.
You cannot create partitions on removable media using DiskPart.
For more information about DiskPart, click Related Topics.
HTH
George
Teica said:
Hello,
Currently I have Windows XP installed on my computer. I
have a program called "Solid Edge 9.0" and it doesn't run
on Windows XP and therefore I have to install Windows
2000.
My question is, using Partition Magic 8, can I just
install Windows 2000 along with my currently installed XP
without deleting any of my current files?
Before I purchase the program I would like to make sure I
can do this...any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
