adding partitions after xp has been installed

[Guest]

hello

i've 2 hard drives on my xp home sp1 pc. drive 0 has one ntfs partition. drive 1 has one fat32 partition

using 'diskpart', i want to create a 20gb extended partition on drive 0 (at the end of the drive) with two fat32 logical drives of 10gb each, without having to reinstall windows or losing data

do i use 'create partition extended' or 'extend'? how do i figure out the offset? 20gb = 2000mb right? is it better to run 'diskpart' in safe mode or from the recovery console? is any of this even possible? if not, and i have to reinstall windows, how do i tell windows setup i want to run 'diskpart' or to use a 'diskpart' script?

thank you. have a great day

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

Hi SilentThunder,

You will need to use a third party partitioning program like PartitionMagic. Diskpart only works with unallocated space. If all
the space on your drive 0 has been allocated, it will not work.

I have been using PartitionMagic v7.01 for a couple of years with no problems at all. I've even used it for creating dual boot
systems without losing any data.

Note that although most of the new partitioning software out there is stable, I would never use any of them without backing up
all of my data first.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys to cheaply . . .
He esteems to lightly

 

[Guest]

are you sure diskpart only works on unallocated space? i'm quite certain windows' help would say something to that effect. do you know where i can download partitionmagic 7

thank you. have a great day

----- C.Joseph Drayton wrote: ----

Hi SilentThunder

You will need to use a third party partitioning program like PartitionMagic. Diskpart only works with unallocated space. If all
the space on your drive 0 has been allocated, it will not work

I have been using PartitionMagic v7.01 for a couple of years with no problems at all. I've even used it for creating dual boot
systems without losing any data

Note that although most of the new partitioning software out there is stable, I would never use any of them without backing up
all of my data first

Ciao . . . C.Josep

That which a man buys to cheaply . .
He esteems to lightl


silentthunder wrote

 

[John R Weiss]

are you sure diskpart only works on unallocated space? i'm quite certain

windows' help would say something to that effect. do you know where i can
download partitionmagic 7?

If you don't want to lose your data, you won't try using diskpart...

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

In any case, BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST!

 

[Guest]

that link doesn't have a downloadable version of pm and i'm not buying something just to use it once. anyway...i'll just reinstall windows and create the right partitions before hand

windows sucks. when it's time to get new hardware i'm switching to apple

----- John R Weiss wrote: ----

are you sure diskpart only works on unallocated space? i'm quite certai

windows' help would say something to that effect. do you know where i ca
download partitionmagic 7

If you don't want to lose your data, you won't try using diskpart..

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic

In any case, BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST!

 

[Michael Stevens]

that link doesn't have a downloadable version of pm and i'm not
buying something just to use it once. anyway...i'll just reinstall
windows and create the right partitions before hand.

windows sucks. when it's time to get new hardware i'm switching to
apple.

Apple doesn't have a native partition utility that will create a partition
in non-allocated space. Obviously you made a typo mistake, what OS did you
mean to reference that included native partitioning features of third party
software?
I really want to switch to this breakthrough OS.
--

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