No Logical Partition

[Guest]

I have tried to partition my "C" drive which is NTFS so I could have any
other partitions, I have tried to partition a Logical "G" drive having
already a used "A" Floppy "D" and "E" Cd-Rom. I have been using the Disk
Management system in the Computer Management Console but the option to add or
change a partition is not shown am I looking in the wrong place, can anyone
please help, Thanks Darren (Australia)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The only way you can create, delete, resize or merge existing partitions,
and not harm your existing Windows installation, is to purchase and use
a third-party partitioning program such as Partition Magic 8.
http://www.symantec.com/partitionmagic/

The alternative is to perform a "Clean Install" of Windows XP.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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|I have tried to partition my "C" drive which is NTFS so I could have any
| other partitions, I have tried to partition a Logical "G" drive having
| already a used "A" Floppy "D" and "E" Cd-Rom. I have been using the Disk
| Management system in the Computer Management Console but the option to add or
| change a partition is not shown am I looking in the wrong place, can anyone
| please help, Thanks Darren (Australia)

 

[info]

Hi,

The reason you are not able to add partitions would be that your current
partition spans the entire harddisk, so there is no free space to create
another partition. In order to create another partition you will need to
delete C:, and then create C: & D: . This of course would mean that the
size of your C: drive will now be C: minus D: . Because your Boot
partition is C: (Boot meaning that your Windows system files are on
that drive) you cannot delete this partition while you are running
Windows, one option is to reinstall XP. You must boot from the CD
to do that, i.e. do not start Windows. All your information will be
lost so you need to backup work files you want to keep.

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