Fdisk on Win 2000

[Tim T]

Is there an Fdisk or similar feature in Win 2000? Is there
one in XP?

 

[Lee Bowman]

I have Partition Magic vs 7.01, and want to do the following:

Current setup: An 80 gig drive partitioned C:E: (20/30/30), and all
are formatted Fat32

This may seem unneccessary to ask, since this is a function of PM, but
sometimes better to ask than not. I am running out of room on drive
C:, and I'd like the drive to be re-partitioned in half (C: 40/40).
There is currently nothing on the middle partition D:.

If I use PM 7.01 to move the partition boundry, is there any risk to
the data on C: (however slight)? Op system XP Pro.

I have a 30 gig drive I could put in to back C: up on, or is that even
necessary?

Best regards,
Lee

 

[Ken Simmons [MSFT]]

Hi Tim,

You can boot from the CD to the Recover Console and run Diskpart.

DISKPART

<size>

Use this command to manage the partitions on your hard disk volumes.

- /add: Creates a new partition.

- /delete: Deletes an existing partition.

- <device_name>: The device name for creating a new partition. The name
can be obtained from the output of the MAP command, for example:
\Device\HardDisk0.

- <drive_name>: A drive-letter based name for deleting an existing
partition, for example D:

- <partition_name>: The partition-based name for deleting an existing
partition and can be used in place of the drive name argument, for
example: \Device\HardDisk0\Partition1.

- <size>: The size of the new partition in megabytes.

NOTE: If no arguments are used, a user interface for managing your
partitions is displayed.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications