partition remover/creater

[Drakkar]

is there a program in windows xp that creates and/or
removes harddrives partiotions?

 

[Nick Le Lievre]

is there a program in windows xp that creates and/or
removes harddrives partiotions?

Your can`t alter the ones you already have created if thats what you mean
but if you add a new hard drive you can create and delete partitions but not
alter them to do that you`d need Partition Magic - but be carefull one false
move and it could be an expensive data recovery job.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


Your can`t alter the ones you already have created if thats what you mean
but if you add a new hard drive you can create and delete partitions but not
alter them to do that you`d need Partition Magic - but be carefull one false
move and it could be an expensive data recovery job.


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I want to delete all partitions on a formatted (blank)
hard drive and create a new one. Is there anyother program
that can do this, partition magic is expensive.

 

[Stuart]

In computer management: Disk Manager you can add, remove and format
partitions as well as creating volume sets and lots of other good stuff -
though many features require NTFS.

 

[drakkar]

-----Original Message-----


Your can`t alter the ones you already have created if thats what you mean
but if you add a new hard drive you can create and delete partitions but not
alter them to do that you`d need Partition Magic - but be carefull one false
move and it could be an expensive data recovery job.


.

I want to delet a partition on my old harddrive and create
a new one. Is there a free program that does that, since
partition magic is rather expensive.

 

[drakkar]

-----Original Message-----
In computer management: Disk Manager you can add, remove and format
partitions as well as creating volume sets and lots of other good stuff -
though many features require NTFS.

Thx, all i need to remove the current partition and create
a new one in fat32

 

[Stuart]

ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\help\diskmgmt.chm::/sag_DISKhowto.htm

 

[Ron Sommer]

In XP, you can use Disk Management to add or remove partitions except for
the partition that XP is installed on.
Booting to the XP CD will let you partition everything.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

As Ron, said if you boot from the XP CD and run setup from there, you can
repartition your hard drive from there. BootIt Next Generation,
www.bootitng.com is a low priced full featured alternative to Partition
Magic. It also includes a fully featured boot manager. 30 day shareware, so
unlike PM, you can try before you buy.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I want to delete all partitions on a formatted (blank)
hard drive and create a new one. Is there anyother program
that can do this, partition magic is expensive.

If this is secondary to your XP drive, then Control Panel - Admin Tools
- Computer Management, select Disk Management and look lower right for
the graphic of the drive.. You can r-click in any of the partitions
(except the one where XP is) and delete; then you can right click in
resulting free space and 'create partition, carrying on to format.

You can only reformat the XP one, using supplied software, as part of
a new install . To resize it, or resize one where you wish to preserve
the current content, needs third party software - I use BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional trial)