External HD

[Bill]

Installed ext USB/Firewire 160GB HD and all is well. Recognized and working
without problem. It has the drive letter F and disk management reports as
one partition. Wish to split it and add a G. Please advise how to do this.
The disk management service is not quite clear.

Windows XP HE

Thanks
Bill

 

[LVTravel]

If there is no information on it currently you can go to disk management,
delete the partition and recreate a new partition with part of the full
size. Format that new smaller partition and then right click on the
unallocated space on the drive and create another partition there.

If data is already on the drive, you will need 3rd party software, similar
to Partition Magic, to make the current partition smaller and then you can
either use disk management or the 3rd party software to create the extended
partition.

Hope this helps

 

[Bill]

Very helpful, thanks. I figured that was the way but wasnt sure.

Thanks again.
Bill