how can I add one more partition without affecting the current files and document?

[walala]

Dear all

I have newly installed my windows Xp system. But due to hasteness, I
forgot to make partitions other the boot partition. That's to say, I
have 40GB harddisk, but I allocated 10GB for booting and system
partition and left the remaining 30GB unallocated and unformated.

Now after installing XP, I only see "C" drive with 10GB capacity. The
remaining 30GB is gone.

Can anybody help me to get that 30GB back without impacting the
existing files and documents safely?

Thanks a lot,

-Walala

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Walala,

Easy, start/run diskmgmt.msc

Right-click the free space and create a new partition. Format it before use.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have newly installed my windows Xp system. But due to hasteness, I
forgot to make partitions other the boot partition. That's to say, I
have 40GB harddisk, but I allocated 10GB for booting and system
partition and left the remaining 30GB unallocated and unformated.

Now after installing XP, I only see "C" drive with 10GB capacity. The
remaining 30GB is gone.

Can anybody help me to get that 30GB back without impacting the
existing files and documents safely?

Keep the C at that size, which is a very suitable one, and make the
remaining space into a second partition for data. That is a good
arrangement. In Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management,
select Disk Management and look lower right for the graphic of the
drive. R-click in the Unallocated space, and take 'Create Partition',
using all that is available (probably about 27 GB in the 'binary' scale
used here - 40 GB is decimal billion, factor of 1.07 smaller) and
continuing to format.

Reboot to bring that into use, then in My Computer open a window on the
new 'drive' and one on
C:\Documents and Settings\you
to show My Documents (and maybe other 'My' folders0.
With the *right* mouse button down, drag the folder(s) across, on
release take *Move* here
..