Creating a partition or re-allocating drive space

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I'm trying to create a new partition on my XP Home machine. However, when I
go into Computer Management, all of the space on the C drive appears to be
allocated. There is no unallocated drive space to create a partition. I'm
only using about 10GB out of 60GB. Is there any way to create the new
partition without re-formating the drive and losing everything? Also, I'd
like to make this new partition bootable.
Thanks for the help.
 
Tom E said:
I'm trying to create a new partition on my XP Home machine. However, when
I
go into Computer Management, all of the space on the C drive appears to be
allocated. There is no unallocated drive space to create a partition.
I'm
only using about 10GB out of 60GB. Is there any way to create the new
partition without re-formating the drive and losing everything? Also, I'd
like to make this new partition bootable.
Thanks for the help.
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Symantec Partition Magic.

Don
 
Below is from another post.
For the price of Partition Magic, you could buy another hard drive.
--
Ron Sommer

Only with a third party partition manager - eg Partition Magic 8, or
BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full
functional trial)
 
Tom said:
I'm trying to create a new partition on my XP Home machine. However,
when I go into Computer Management, all of the space on the C drive
appears to be allocated. There is no unallocated drive space to
create a partition. I'm only using about 10GB out of 60GB. Is there
any way to create the new partition without re-formating the drive
and losing everything? Also, I'd like to make this new partition
bootable.
Thanks for the help.
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PartitionMagic from Symantec
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Tom E said:
I'm trying to create a new partition on my XP Home machine. However, when I
go into Computer Management, all of the space on the C drive appears to be
allocated. There is no unallocated drive space to create a partition. I'm
only using about 10GB out of 60GB. Is there any way to create the new
partition without re-formating the drive and losing everything?
Click to expand...

You need third party partitioning software, such as Partition Magic 8.
That is rather expensive for one item, so I would use BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

Boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on
Partition work. Highlight your C:, and you can then click Resize to
change its size. (you can also use the View MBR button to view all
partitions and make a selected one the active one to boot, but you will
not want to do that yet)

I would make the new partition using XP Disk management - there will now
be Unallocated space to right click in and take action
 
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