I bought an HP notebook with Windows XP Home Ed already installed.

The HDD is 30 GB; there's 1 primary partition, with one (logical?) drive
("C:").

I want to add a couple more logical partitions. To do that, I have to
create an extended partition. But the GUI interface for disk management
won't let me do it; nor will DISKPART via command line. I then read that
this process requires shrinking the primary partition first.

Most posts on the WWW and USENET say "go buy a copy of Partition Magic,
then..." I don't feel like shelling out money just to resize one partition.
Is there freeware out there that will do this?

TIA,

sjfromm

Hi,

Alternative partitioning programs:

BootIT NG www.terabyteunlimited.com
Partition Commander http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html
Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/

Please note that anything that is free may indeed be worth what you paid for
it. Save yourself much aggravation and backup anything critical to you
before you start. I have tried all of the above utilities, and had varying
degrees of satisfaction. I would recommend the first one (BING).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Stephen J Fromm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I bought an HP notebook with Windows XP Home Ed already installed.
>
> The HDD is 30 GB; there's 1 primary partition, with one (logical?) drive
> ("C:").
>
> I want to add a couple more logical partitions. To do that, I have to
> create an extended partition. But the GUI interface for disk management
> won't let me do it; nor will DISKPART via command line. I then read that
> this process requires shrinking the primary partition first.
>
> Most posts on the WWW and USENET say "go buy a copy of Partition Magic,
> then..." I don't feel like shelling out money just to resize one
partition.
> Is there freeware out there that will do this?
>
> TIA,
>
> sjfromm
>
>