Partitioning after XP install

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I just installed XP on a 500 gb new hard drive.

When installing xp formatted the drive with only the primary C:.

Does anyone know if you can do extended, and if so, how?

Do you have to setup in a config.sys file last drive?
 
Snowdog said:
I just installed XP on a 500 gb new hard drive.

When installing xp formatted the drive with only the primary C:.

Does anyone know if you can do extended, and if so, how?

Do you have to setup in a config.sys file last drive?
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You mean you just have one big 500GB C drive?

Or you created a smaller partition to install XP on and another (or few
others) for other things and now you need a larger "system" partition?

Or are you trying to figure out how to automate some stuff during the
install?
 
I installed XP and during the install xp formatted my 500 gb hard drive with
only one partition c: drive., It did not give me an option to partition. And
now I have the XP working great, but would like the extra drives as I am
going to network and wish to have the network on a different partition.
Also, it appears it's not using the whole 500 gb, but now I'm curious if it's
even necessary. The drive I'm working with is a Maxtor Sata 500 gb.
 
XP was probably installed useing an older xp cd,this would account for a
smaller partition due to the 132MB limitation.To create another partition,go
to run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,R.click on C: empty space,select partition,
the "new partition wizard" should start,follow the wizard.
 
Snowdog said:
I installed XP and during the install xp formatted my 500 gb hard
drive with only one partition c: drive., It did not give me an
option to partition. And now I have the XP working great, but
would like the extra drives as I am going to network and wish to
have the network on a different partition. Also, it appears it's
not using the whole 500 gb, but now I'm curious if it's even
necessary. The drive I'm working with is a Maxtor Sata 500 gb.
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First - you don't get 500GB out of a 500GB drive. Marketing vs. Reality.
How much total space does it say you have on this partition?

Secondly - not sure why you want to have a different *partition* for network
sharing (I assume that is what you mean by 'going to network'.) Setup a
folder, share only that folder and set permissions accordingly.

However - if you insist on carving up the space into several partitions -
you will need third party tools - XP does not have the native tools to do
that.
 
Not applicable, as detailed in the responses

Andrew E. said:
XP was probably installed useing an older xp cd,this would account for a
smaller partition due to the 132MB limitation.To create another
partition,go
to run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,R.click on C: empty space,select
partition,
the "new partition wizard" should start,follow the wizard.
Click to expand...
 
Snowdog said:
I just installed XP on a 500 gb new hard drive.

When installing xp formatted the drive with only the primary C:.

Does anyone know if you can do extended, and if so, how?

Do you have to setup in a config.sys file last drive?
Click to expand...


Snowdog said:
I installed XP and during the install xp formatted my 500 gb hard drive
with
only one partition c: drive., It did not give me an option to partition.
And
now I have the XP working great, but would like the extra drives as I am
going to network and wish to have the network on a different partition.
Also, it appears it's not using the whole 500 gb, but now I'm curious if
it's
even necessary. The drive I'm working with is a Maxtor Sata 500 gb.
Click to expand...


Snowdog:
Actually you did have an opportunity to multi-partition your HDD during the
XP OS setup process. But since you didn't do, so...

As Shenan has informed you...you can use a third-party disk partition
manager program to multi-partition your HDD. A freely-available one - the
EASEUS Partition Manager - can be obtained from...
http://www.partition-tool.com/
Seems to be easy-to-use & quite reliable based on our experience with the
program.
Anna
 
Tried this: All the menu that is available is open, Explore, Change Drive
Letter and paths, properties, and Help.

Under the change drive letter and paths is the add drive and has only mount
in the following NTFS folder??? with an empty space and browse button, when
you browse all it does is add a folder within the C: drive.
 
Just wanted to let you know that I checked the SATA/300 Installation Book
say's larger than 137 GB, system must support 48-bit BIOS and your OS must
have supporting service packs installed.

Then it goes on to say The Windows operating systems that support drives
larger than 137 GB are Vista, Windows XP SP1 and Higher. Windows XP Tablet
PC and Media Center already include SP1 and 48-bit support.

That is from MAXTOR
 
I was answering Andrew's usual nonsensical post

If you want to split your current C drive of 500gb approx into seperate
partitions you need third party software.
However your 'network' rational for seperate partitions makes no sense
whatsoever, it wont gain you anything, or enhance security
 
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