Creating another partition on my win xp machine

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Hello all,

I have an 80GB hard drive and have Win XP on it and some other software,
now I have about 68GB free. How can I create another partition on this
drive, say like 10 or 20GB worth. Is there something in XP that would
allow me to do this?


thanks
 
I have an 80GB hard drive and have Win XP on it and some other software,
now I have about 68GB free. How can I create another partition on this
drive, say like 10 or 20GB worth. Is there something in XP that would
allow me to do this?
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You will need to use partition magic or simmilar utilities to resize the one big
partition down to a smaller size, and create another partition. (windows XP is
not capable of doing this without deleting everythin on the drive)


Regards,
Chris
 
Hello all,

I have an 80GB hard drive and have Win XP on it and some other software,
now I have about 68GB free. How can I create another partition on this
drive, say like 10 or 20GB worth. Is there something in XP that would
allow me to do this?


thanks
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If what you're starting with is an 80Gig hard drive and an 80Gig
partition, you'll need something like partition magic if you wish to
do this non-destructively. Resize the 80Gig partition to 60Gigs, and
create another 20Gig one. Partition Magic is sold by Symantec, and
costs about $60-$100 depending on where you choose to buy it.

There are a few other programs that will do something similar, but I
don't know of any others that run under windows.

If you don't mind starting over clean, you can do the slash and burn
technique with the built in FDISK program. Just destroy all the
partitions, then create a 60Gig and a 20Gig partition and format each
partition. You'll need to choose one as your boot partition (that's
the one you put winXP on).

Each has it's own set of drawbacks.
 
Open control panel, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk
management(local), and you will see your drive. Right click on the freespace
and create your new drive and partition it.
 
The OP's use of "68GB free" may not mean "unallocated"
but just "not containing files". For all we know, he has one
big partition filling up his entire HD.

*TimD*
 
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