Disk too large?

[Albert]

I have this 150 GB harddisk which contains one partiton of 15GB holding the
OS. Now I cannot partition the rest using Logical Disk Manager.

Is the size a problem,?

XP SP1, the drive is Primary Master, Basic Disk

Suggestions?

 

[JAX]

Have you gone to "My Computer" and R-clicked the second drive and tried
"format" from there?

JAX

 

[Albert]

Since I cannot create a partition there is nothing to format.

Henro

 

[JAX]

I misread your OP. You cannot partition from within XP. You will have to
either re-format and partition from there or use 3rd party software to
partition. Partition Magic is one application you may consider.

LOL JAX

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

Is the drive seen as 150G under disk managment ??

Remember you need SP1 and also you need to enable 48 bit lba.
See this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp

Your motherboard need to support large drives.

If you already have a 15 G partition, you need to create an extended
partition and then logic drives

 

[Yves Leclerc]

If the one partition is 150GB, then you can not re-partition since there is
not "free" space. If you wish to re-partition without reformatting, buy
Partition Magic.

Y.

 

[David B.]

But if you read the OP you would notice it is not.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I not sure! Could be a typo (he might have missed entering the 0)?
Y.

 

[Andy]

I have this 150 GB harddisk which contains one partiton of 15GB holding the
OS. Now I cannot partition the rest using Logical Disk Manager.

Is the size a problem,? No

XP SP1, the drive is Primary Master, Basic Disk

Suggestions? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313348&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH