Partion Hard Drive

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Fred Marino

I have an 80 Gig hard drive and I would like to partition it into two 40 Gig
hard drives. Can this be done? And how do I do it?
Fred Marino
 
If it's a new drive, without any version of Windows XP installed, boot with the Window XP
CD (if your System Setup/BIOS doesn't have the CD Drive as the first drive in the boot
sequence, on boot enter System Setup and change the boot order of the drives until the CD
Rom drive is the first in sequence, then select the option to exit and save settings).
After booting with the Windows XP CD the install will begin, when you get to the screen
where it asks where you want the install, press the ESC key, and you will see all of the
options for formatting and partitioning.

The above is ONLY for a NEW (clean) install. If you already have Windows XP and your
software installed: The Windows XP native partitioning utility does not allow for
partitioning without losing your data (partitioning on the fly). If you want to
partition, or change the size of existing partitions, without losing data, you would have
to use a third party partitioning utility like Partition Magic:

http://www.symantec.com/partitionmagic/
 
Hi Fred,

Is this a drive you added? Or one that contains the current system and you
just want to split it up?

For the former, start/run diskmgmt.msc and use this tool to partition and
format the new drive. Start by right clicking the free space, the option
will be obvious.

For the latter, you will need to use a third party partitioning tool to do
this without destroying the existing system.

Boot Managers and Partitioning programs:

BootIT NG www.terabyteunlimited.com
Partition Magic www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic
Partition Commander http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html
Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 

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