creating partitions

[Guest]

im using XP home edition and im having problems trying to create partitions on a 250G hard drive- im following the instructions relating to disc management
' Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New Partition, or right-click free space in an extended partition, and then click New Logical Drive'
i cant seem to find anyway of applying this instruction

 

[Richard Urban]

You didn't say what happens when you try. All you say is "it doesn't work".
Not much to go on.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run diskmgmt.msc

In the lower right pane, right-click the unallocated (black) space of the
250GB drive. There you will find the options to create partitions/volumes,
and format.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

im using XP home edition and im having problems trying to create

partitions on a 250G hard drive- im following the instructions relating
to disc management

' Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New

Partition, or right-click free space in an extended partition, and then
click New Logical Drive'

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

im using XP home edition and im having problems trying to create
partitions on a 250G hard drive- im following the instructions
relating to disc management ' Right-click an unallocated region of a
basic disk, and then click New Partition, or right-click free space
in an extended partition, and then click New Logical Drive' i cant
seem to find anyway of applying this instruction

You probably don't have any unallocated or free space space. Most
people don't.

Assuming that all disk space is in one or more more existing
partitions, you can't do what you're trying to do. Windows
provides no tool for changing the existing partition structure of
the drive non-destructively.

The only way to do this is with a third-party program. Partition
Magic is the best-known such program, but there are shareware
alternatives, such as BootIt Next Generation. I've never used
BING myself, but it's spoken of well by other posters here.