I have an IDE 80gb hard disk running XP Pro (Fat32 disk format) and want to
partition the disk into two parts. I have tried many partition apps but all
give me this problem. It seems when selecting the disk it's greyed out and
won't give me the option of partitioning??

Is there a preferred application to use?? Or is it in somewhere write
protected in BIOS etc??!

Can anyone give me a clue??

Cheers
Adman

Adman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have an IDE 80gb hard disk running XP Pro (Fat32 disk format)
> and want to partition the disk into two parts. I have tried many
> partition apps but all give me this problem. It seems when selecting
> the disk it's greyed out and won't give me the option of partitioning??

The problem is that you dont realise that the drive is already
partitioned with a single 80gb partition for the entire drive.

So you dont want to partition the drive, you want to shrink
the current partition so it only occupys 40gb and then
create a new partition in the newly created free space.

Obviously that will only be possible if the
current 80gb partition isnt more than half full.

> Is there a preferred application to use??

Many use Partition Magic, but it aint free.

And it can lose all your data when attempting to shrink a
partition too. You should only try it when fully backed up.

> Or is it in somewhere write protected in BIOS etc??!

Nope.

> Can anyone give me a clue??

Cheers for your help.


On 27/10/03 8:17 pm, in article bnjuh8$vt3d9$(E-Mail Removed),
"Rod Speed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
> Adman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:BBC2C4BE.AD90%(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> I have an IDE 80gb hard disk running XP Pro (Fat32 disk format)
>> and want to partition the disk into two parts. I have tried many
>> partition apps but all give me this problem. It seems when selecting
>> the disk it's greyed out and won't give me the option of partitioning??
>
> The problem is that you dont realise that the drive is already
> partitioned with a single 80gb partition for the entire drive.
>
> So you dont want to partition the drive, you want to shrink
> the current partition so it only occupys 40gb and then
> create a new partition in the newly created free space.
>
> Obviously that will only be possible if the
> current 80gb partition isnt more than half full.
>
>> Is there a preferred application to use??
>
> Many use Partition Magic, but it aint free.
>
> And it can lose all your data when attempting to shrink a
> partition too. You should only try it when fully backed up.
>
>> Or is it in somewhere write protected in BIOS etc??!
>
> Nope.
>
>> Can anyone give me a clue??
>
>

Do you need to write a signature to the disk ?


On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:49:02 +0000, Adman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>
>I have an IDE 80gb hard disk running XP Pro (Fat32 disk format) and want to
>partition the disk into two parts. I have tried many partition apps but all
>give me this problem. It seems when selecting the disk it's greyed out and
>won't give me the option of partitioning??
>
>Is there a preferred application to use?? Or is it in somewhere write
>protected in BIOS etc??!
>
>Can anyone give me a clue??
>
>Cheers
>Adman