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Simon Pleasants
I have just taken delivery of a new computer. I usually have the hard
drive partitioned in two - one to store programs and the other store
data etc. Unfortunately on this occasion I forgot to ask the computer
store to do this when they built the machine.
The master drive is 120Gb and I would like to partition it to a 20Gb C
drive and a 100Gb D drive. It is running Windows XP Pro and the help
files seem to indicate that you can set up the partition in XP itself
but no matter how precisely I follow the instructions it simply does
not give me the options that the help files say it will.
Can you create a partition with XP like that? It says I have no
unused disk space (which I assume is different from free space of
which there is over 100Gb).
If I cannot create a partition this way, I know there are 3rd party
programs which can - any recommendations? And are the partitions
created any different physically from ones created when the disk is
originally installed before the operating system is loaded?
Any help gratefully received.
Simon.
drive partitioned in two - one to store programs and the other store
data etc. Unfortunately on this occasion I forgot to ask the computer
store to do this when they built the machine.
The master drive is 120Gb and I would like to partition it to a 20Gb C
drive and a 100Gb D drive. It is running Windows XP Pro and the help
files seem to indicate that you can set up the partition in XP itself
but no matter how precisely I follow the instructions it simply does
not give me the options that the help files say it will.
Can you create a partition with XP like that? It says I have no
unused disk space (which I assume is different from free space of
which there is over 100Gb).
If I cannot create a partition this way, I know there are 3rd party
programs which can - any recommendations? And are the partitions
created any different physically from ones created when the disk is
originally installed before the operating system is loaded?
Any help gratefully received.
Simon.