Need to partition preloaded hard drive

Just bought new computer with preloaded software. I want to partition drive and reinstall software using Recovery CD since that's all I have to work with. XP would only allow me to create 1 partition and limited it's size to 7 Gb. Is there any way I can partition into multiple drives the sizes I want, with or without reformatting and if I do reformat can I use the recovery CD to reload the software onto a smaller C: drive? Any suggestions to accomplish this would be appreciated.

Hi,

You need third-party partitioning software.

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

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
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Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Keith M" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Just bought new computer with preloaded software. I want to partition
drive and reinstall software using Recovery CD since that's all I have to
work with. XP would only allow me to create 1 partition and limited it's
size to 7 Gb. Is there any way I can partition into multiple drives the
sizes I want, with or without reformatting and if I do reformat can I use
the recovery CD to reload the software onto a smaller C: drive? Any
suggestions to accomplish this would be appreciated.

I've used Partition Magic (v8) and it works very well under XP.

Nice interface and easy to use.

Recommended.

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eTbTE0ewDHA.2092@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> You need third-party partitioning software.
>
> BootIT NG www.terabyteunlimited.com
> Partition Magic www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic
> Partition Commander http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html
> Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
> Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Keith M" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:75B009A3-196F-44FF-8FAD-99BB56591D96@microsoft.com...
> > Just bought new computer with preloaded software. I want to partition
> drive and reinstall software using Recovery CD since that's all I have to
> work with. XP would only allow me to create 1 partition and limited it's
> size to 7 Gb. Is there any way I can partition into multiple drives the
> sizes I want, with or without reformatting and if I do reformat can I use
> the recovery CD to reload the software onto a smaller C: drive? Any
> suggestions to accomplish this would be appreciated.
>
>