partitioning my harddrive

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Brian

I want to partition my 80Gig hard drive. My newest PC
came with XP installed, so I searched around and found
instructions on how to partition the drive in help. I
thought this was an improvement over having to format
everything and start from zero. My problem is that it
doesn't work. Neither the Windows based help instructions
or the system prompt functions work. When I contacted the
PC manufacturer (emachines), they said the software does
not allow for partitioning. I would need to buy a a third
party software to partition the drive.

Why are the help instructions there if the software
doesn't support it?

What is the best way (software?)to partition the drive?

Thanks!
 
In order to resize a partition on a drive without loosing data you do indeed need 3rd party partitioning software. XP has the
ability to create and delete partitions, that's it. It cannot resize them.
 
Interesting problem! I too try to start the "Help and
Support" and nothing happens!! Gee what a nice Help
system! As for the drive partition; that must really be
frustrating to find something in the Help instructions
(you're ahead of me there) but then what the instructions
say to do doesn't work. I recommend Norton Ghost 2004 Pro.
 
Hi,

Use FDISK from a system floppy disk to create and manage
partitions. The softwares like Seagate Disk do not
recognize partitions greater than 16 GB.

FDisk is the best tool and is always accurate.

Regards
M. Rajesh
www.winxpsolution.com
 
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