creating partitions

[If_Its_Junk]

I recently joined a firm and decided to do a complete system restore on the
computer I will be using.

It is an HP Pavilion with XP.

What I want to do is create some partitions, but the HP System recovery cd
set does not give me the option during recovery to create the partitions.

Is there a way I can create the partitions?

(I also posted this in the Compaq newsgroup)

 

[Guest]

The Recovery disk cannot do any partition setting. Win xp Pro will allow you
to create a partition when first installed. If you want to resize, delete,
copy.. the parrtition later, you need a utility software such as Norton
Partition Magic 8.0.

 

[Claude Henchoz]

If you have the bandwidth to download Knoppix
(http://www.knoppix.org/), which is a bootable Linux CD, this will also
give you the ability to resize Partitions using its QTPartEd program.

 

[Jim Macklin]

But no NTFS support.


| If you have the bandwidth to download Knoppix
| (http://www.knoppix.org/), which is a bootable Linux CD,
this will also
| give you the ability to resize Partitions using its
QTPartEd program.
|

 

[Claude Henchoz]

That is so not true.

As a matter of fact, I have just used Knoppix (version 3.7, even using
the 2.4 kernel) and QTParted to resize a 30GB NTFS partition to a 15GB
NTFS partition, no issues there... the system (WinXP SP2) boots fine.

 

[Brian Gotjunk]

Can I use it to create partitions after I have completed the Reinstall from
the HP recovery cd's?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I would get some advice from HP about whether partitioning will prevent the
recovery software from functioning correctly in the future. If there is
some risk of that I would not partition. You can always add another hard
drive to gain partitions.

 

[Claude Henchoz]

Of course can you do it.

If you have... um... a 30 GB disk, and you restore from the HP CD,
you'll probably end up having one large partition taking up the entire
disk.

Now, as soon as this is finished, you can boot from the Knoppix CD,
launch QTParted and resize that partition to maybe 20 GB or whatever
size you want.

Then reboot.

Then back in Windows, hit start -> run -> and enter "diskmgmt.msc",
which will let you create a new partition in the now-free space after
your C: partition.

In reply to Colin: Wouldn't it be really stupid if HPs restore CD would
rely on anything currently on the disk? I thought that this was exactly
what it's designed for... If everything is fux0red, insert the CD and
have a brand new (well...) OS on it.

HTH, Claude