How to Partition my hard drive

[Chris J.]

Any links where I can find out how to do this? What are the true benefits?
TY

 

[JerryM \(ID\)]

Hi, Chris,

The only way you can re-partition your hard drive without losing all your programs, is with a 3rd party partition manager, such as Partition Magic or Bootit NG.
Otherwise you will have to start from scratch, and re-install XP on a clean hard drive.

Jerry

 

[°Mike°]

How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867

Tutorial on How to Create & Delete Hard Drive Partitions
http://fdisk.radified.com/

 

[Philip]

I have two hard disks on my machine. The master drive is divided into
several partitions. In theory, if you keep all your important data on a
separate partition from the OS (usually C then if you ever have to
reinstall the OS then your data is relatively safe. I use Norton Ghost to
keep backups of the C: drive on the second hard disk.

 

[Sandman]

I have never understood the thinking behind partitions, especially with
XP...(because of the way XP accesses data on the drive) ...and If your HD
craps, you lose everything anyway(..............

 

[Jim Berwick]

I have two hard disks on my machine. The master drive is divided into
several partitions. In theory, if you keep all your important data on
a separate partition from the OS (usually C then if you ever have to
reinstall the OS then your data is relatively safe. I use Norton Ghost
to keep backups of the C: drive on the second hard disk.

There are a lot of perfectly valid reasons for multiple partitions on the
same drive. The idea that having your OS on a different partition of the
same physical drive makes your data safe is simply not one of them.