Creating Partitions on Wind XP

[David]

Hi,

My Wind XP is installed on my hard drive. The overview of the drive is
as follows: there is an unallocated space roughly 4173MBytes and a
NTFS partition (C) size 70GBytes containing Win XP.

I want to create another NTFS partition of 35 GBytes. However,
Partition Magic 6.0 does not allow this: it allows me to create
another partition of maximum size 4173MBytes, but it does not allow me
to resize the C partition, even though the C partition has 60GBytes of
free space. How do I solve this problem?

Many thanks,
David

 

[Nepatsfan]

Hi,

My Wind XP is installed on my hard drive. The overview of the drive is
as follows: there is an unallocated space roughly 4173MBytes and a
NTFS partition (C) size 70GBytes containing Win XP.

I want to create another NTFS partition of 35 GBytes. However,
Partition Magic 6.0 does not allow this: it allows me to create
another partition of maximum size 4173MBytes, but it does not allow me
to resize the C partition, even though the C partition has 60GBytes of
free space. How do I solve this problem?

Many thanks,
David

You would need an updated version of Partition Magic or a comparable program to
resize your partitions. According to this article PM 6.0 won't do the job.

Problems When You Use PowerQuest Partition Magic 6.0 to Resize an NTFS Partition
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308322

Here are some options you can try. I believe that trial versions of Disk
Director and BootIT NG are available.

Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80

Acronis Disk Director 10.0
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

BootIT Next Generation
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[David]

You would need an updated version of Partition Magic or a comparable program to
resize your partitions. According to this article PM 6.0 won't do the job.

Problems When You Use PowerQuest Partition Magic 6.0 to Resize an NTFS Partition
in Windows XPhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/308322

Here are some options you can try. I believe that trial versions of Disk
Director and BootIT NG are available.

Norton PartitionMagic 8.0http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80

Acronis Disk Director 10.0http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

BootIT Next Generationhttp://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

Thank you very much for the quick response. I will try soon.

David

 

[PRF]

Thank you very much for the quick response. I will try soon.

Yes, not only can you use BootItNG for 30 days unregistered, you can use it
indefinately if you don't install it, just run it from floppy or cd every
time (or, I suppose, USB stick - must look into that).

PRF

 

[Onsokumaru]

Yes, not only can you use BootItNG for 30 days unregistered, you can use
it
indefinately if you don't install it, just run it from floppy or cd every
time (or, I suppose, USB stick - must look into that).

PRF

If you install the Boot Manager portion of BootItNG the program it is
limited to 30 days. No such warnings appear on the partition management
tools, which does run from a USB stick - 1.81a does

Been a little while since I used it so the instructions are fuzzy.
After you create the boot disk, and boot from the disk, do not install the
program, click cancel or maintenance mode. (You can create a boot disk with
only the management tools on it IIRC).

It's pretty easy to get the gist of managing the partitions from here. Be
warned however, (the last time I used it), it will create an NTFS partition,
but *not* format it.
You don't need to do much, just select, then resize the first partition,
then create a new one in the remaining space. This partition manipulation
will not destroy data, but it is advisable to create a disk image first,
just in case.

When you reboot Windows will tell you it found new hardware. You don't need
to reboot, but can if you want. Go into Disk Management and format the new
partition there.