how to make one more drive on my PC

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On my PC there is only 1 drive, that is C:\
Every thing is installed in this drive. operating system is windows XP
professional
My hard disk is 40GB (lot of spaces are blank), i want to make into 2
drives. one will remain C: and other one as a D:
I dont how to do it, I only know how to do partition during XP installation.
My computer is having very important data, therfore I cannot format and
reinstall it.

Please advise me, any method by which I can make one more drive without
formatting/deleting any thing.

Regards.

Irshad
 
Irshad Alam said:
On my PC there is only 1 drive, that is C:\
Every thing is installed in this drive. operating system is windows XP
professional
My hard disk is 40GB (lot of spaces are blank), i want to make into 2
drives. one will remain C: and other one as a D:
I dont how to do it, I only know how to do partition during XP installation.
My computer is having very important data, therfore I cannot format and
reinstall it.

Please advise me, any method by which I can make one more drive without
formatting/deleting any thing.

Regards.

Irshad
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You need a partition manager such as the one from
Acronis. It lets you resize your partitions non-destructively.

However . . . accidents do happen. You would be wise
to back up your important files before you go ahead. You
appear to be under the illusion that backing up files is for
other people. Well, maybe, but if you want a reality check
then read the item titled "can't assign letter to partition",
posted in this newsgroup less than two days ago. You
could soon be in the same position as its author. The
choice is yours.
 
On my PC there is only 1 drive, that is C:\
Every thing is installed in this drive. operating system is windows XP
professional
My hard disk is 40GB (lot of spaces are blank), i want to make into 2
drives. one will remain C: and other one as a D:
I dont how to do it, I only know how to do partition during XP
installation. My computer is having very important data, therfore I
cannot format and reinstall it.

Please advise me, any method by which I can make one more drive
without formatting/deleting any thing.

Regards.

Irshad
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Why do you want to partition the drive ?
 
Irshad said:
On my PC there is only 1 drive, that is C:\
Every thing is installed in this drive. operating system is windows XP
professional
My hard disk is 40GB (lot of spaces are blank), i want to make into 2
drives. one will remain C: and other one as a D:
I dont how to do it, I only know how to do partition during XP
installation. My computer is having very important data, therfore I
cannot format and reinstall it.

Please advise me, any method by which I can make one more drive
without formatting/deleting any thing.
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Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to
do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One
such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a
free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
days. I haven't used it myself, but it comes highly recommended by several
other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
 
This may be a safe, easy way of creating a psuedo "D" drive.

Create an artificial drive using a folder on an existing "C" drive.

On the C hard drive create a folder Drive_D

In the autoexec.bat file put the following line.

subst D: C:\Drive_D

Then go to My Computer and make a shortcut of D drive (optional)

Reboot the computer.
 
Don Schmidt said:
This may be a safe, easy way of creating a psuedo "D" drive.

Create an artificial drive using a folder on an existing "C" drive.

On the C hard drive create a folder Drive_D

In the autoexec.bat file put the following line.

subst D: C:\Drive_D

Then go to My Computer and make a shortcut of D drive (optional)

Reboot the computer.
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No need to reboot the PC - substituted drives become effective
immediately!
 
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