USB Partion Drive with data already in

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Ok, I have a USB Western Digital 160JB External IEEE 1394 SBP2 Combo
Drive with NTFS format. I use it for backups propose, meaning the
drive already have data on it. I want to do a new partition on the
same drive and make it FAT32.

I will use this new partition for home directory of KNOPPIX (Linux) so
a 20GB or maybe a little bigger will be fine.

I want to use KNOPPIX because I don’t want to do a
dual-booting/installation of any other linux flavor, I like the "CD
live" idea.

How do I do this without losing anything in the old partition?
This is my first time I will do a partition, so please give details.

NOTE: I don’t want to touch anything from my C: Drive

THANKS IN ADVANCE

[WindowsForumz moderator: The poster has indicated that he/she is
running WinXP, so we feel this newsgroup is the most appropriate.
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XP can not resize existing partitions.

XP will not allow you to create a FAT32 partition greater than 32GB.

XP will not allow you to store files greater that 4GB on FAT32 partitions.

You might look at Partition Magic (or others) which should help you with
this.
 
Yves Leclerc said:
XP will not allow you to create a FAT32 partition greater than 32GB.

You might look at Partition Magic (or others) which should help you
with
this.
Click to expand...
ok, then 20BG will be fine
Partition Magic is around $40

I’m looking right now Paragon Partition Manager 6.01
. would it work?

Is any linux based program that I can use?

I know this is a windows ng, so please forget me for refering linux,
please let me know where I can find a linux ng if I’m getting out of
topic.

Thanks
 
op4latino said:
[quote:15f1aed059="Yves Leclerc"]XP will not allow you to
create a FAT32 partition greater than 32GB.

You might look at Partition Magic (or others) which should
help you with
this.
[/quote:15f1aed059]
ok, then 20BG will be fine
Partition Magic is around $40

I'm looking right now
Paragon
Partition Manager 6.01. would it work?

Is any linux based program that I can use?

I know this is a windows forum, so please forget me for
refering linux, please let me know where I can find a linux
forum if I'm getting out of topic.

Thanks
Click to expand...

ok, I haven’t done anything to my Harddisk

Will Diskpart.exe solve my problem??

This is a screenshot of diskpart on action in my computer

http://geocities.com/billyoliva/1/diskpart.jpg

DiskPart
Command line

N00bie question: What’s the difference between a volumen and a
partition?
What do I need for Knoppix’s home directory, volume or partition?

THANKS
 
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