Disk Management wont let me partition! HELP!!!

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Blair Gardner

Hey guys, I have a question relating to an issue that I
thought SHOULD have been easy to cope with, however is
posing a major problem to me . . .


I have Windows2000 Professional
All I'm simply trying to do is create a new partition on
me NEWLY reformatted single partition hard drive of my
moderately new dell computer, using disk management. I'm
SUPPOSED to be able to right click on the volume (or the
small bar graph below) and I should have the option of
creating a new partition, and yet I do not have that
option at all. Just to make sure, I disabled all sharing,
made sure I was logged on as administrator, and even
REFORMATTED my entire hard drive to see if I would then
get the option. Nope. All I am simply trying to do is
allow 30GB of my 80GB harddrive to become designated as my
music-drive, I'm not even trying to do any double-booting
or anything complicated at all. I just want to be able to
access my music by directly clicking on a separate drive.
It seemed so easy to me . . . .

Anyone have any ideas at all? I would VERY much
appreciate anything that could lead to a successful
partition. I would like to use NTFS. Thanks.

-Blair
(e-mail address removed)
 
Blair said:
Hey guys, I have a question relating to an issue that I
thought SHOULD have been easy to cope with, however is
posing a major problem to me . . .

I have Windows2000 Professional
All I'm simply trying to do is create a new partition on
me NEWLY reformatted single partition hard drive of my
moderately new dell computer, using disk management. I'm
SUPPOSED to be able to right click on the volume (or the
small bar graph below) and I should have the option of
creating a new partition, and yet I do not have that
option at all. Just to make sure, I disabled all sharing,
made sure I was logged on as administrator, and even
REFORMATTED my entire hard drive to see if I would then
get the option. Nope. All I am simply trying to do is
allow 30GB of my 80GB harddrive to become designated as my
music-drive, I'm not even trying to do any double-booting
or anything complicated at all. I just want to be able to
access my music by directly clicking on a separate drive.
It seemed so easy to me . . . .

Anyone have any ideas at all? I would VERY much
appreciate anything that could lead to a successful
partition. I would like to use NTFS. Thanks.

-Blair
(e-mail address removed)
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Blair, if you already formatted the entire drive, that is the problem.
There is no more room for another partition. What you want to do is
delete the existing partition, then create and format 2 new ones of the
appropriate size.

hth
 
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