Formatting multiple drives

[Guest]

Hello all, I am finishing building my first system. My OS is Media Center
2005. I have 4 hard drives. The first drive, a raptor, is my boot drive.
XP is installed fine. Although when I went to authenticate it, went through
the phone process, it told me that I didn't have a genuine copy, then I
clicked this button and it was genuine. Anyway my second hard drive is only
for my pictures and music. My third and fourth drive will be the drives I
use for the pvr portion of my system. I am going to raid them under JBOD. I
want to format and partition these drives. I thought XP had a kind of
partition magic application. If so can anyone tell me where to find it. Or,
if it doesn't exist, I'd welcome advice on how to format and partition these
three drives. I have a fifth drive that is in an enclosure, this drive will
hold my documents, and backups. I'm going to load MS Office on this drive.
Also, I am going to format and partition this drive also. Thanks

 

[Rich Barry]

You may be thinking of Disk Management. Rt click MyComputer>select
Manage>Disk Management. You can partition
free space from there.

 

[Guest]

You can only create new partitions with XP from disk space that is not
formatted. If all the avialable drive is partitioned, you will need a third
party application.

What you are thinking of is only avilable during a clean install.