Hi, John.
Is there a way I can create a
new partition without starting over?
Maybe. It depends on factors you didn't tell us about.
Is this your only HD? Is Win2K already installed on it and running? Or is
this a second HD, with Win2K already installed on a primary drive?
If so, then your problem is quite simple. Use Disk Management to create one
or more new partitions in the unused space, assign drive letters, and format
them as either FAT or NTFS.
Disk Management is buried under lots of mouse-clicks. I prefer to start it
by typing at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc. Take some time to study Disk
Management, including its Help file. This new built-in utility does a lot
of jobs that we did with other tools in older Windows based on MS-DOS: It
creates and deletes partitions, which we did by booting to MS-DOS and using
FDISK. It formats volumes, which we used to do with Format.exe. And it
assigns and reassigns drive letters, which we did with Device Manager in
Win9x/ME.
You could still use an MS-DOS boot floppy and FDISK and Format.exe, of
course, but Disk Management is the better tool for the future.
Tell us more about how many HDs you have and how they are formatted. Also
tell us which operating systems you have and where they are installed on
your computer. Then we can give you more-specific advice.
RC