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How do I partition an existing HD? Using Win xp Home.
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peter
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
you will need a seperate program....the one on the website will work for 30
days...read the instructions that come with it.
It works great off a floppy and when the screen comes up to install it say
no and then the partion work screen will show.
peter
you will need a seperate program....the one on the website will work for 30
days...read the instructions that come with it.
It works great off a floppy and when the screen comes up to install it say
no and then the partion work screen will show.
peter
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R. C. White
Hi, Karen.
Use Disk Management. One way to find it is to type at the Run prompt:
diskmgmt.msc
BUT...DM cannot shrink or otherwise change the size of an existing
partition. Microsoft does not sell anything that will do this. You'll need
a third-party program such as Partition Magic to do that job. The only way
to do it with DM is to delete one or more existing partitions or logical
drives and create one or more new ones in that space. And DM cannot do
anything with the System Partition or Boot Volume.
You said "an existing HD". But the answer is different if that HD has
already been partitioned, especially if ALL the space on the HD is already
included in an existing partition. But if you have unpartitioned space on
that HD, then Disk Management is the tool you should use.
RC
Use Disk Management. One way to find it is to type at the Run prompt:
diskmgmt.msc
BUT...DM cannot shrink or otherwise change the size of an existing
partition. Microsoft does not sell anything that will do this. You'll need
a third-party program such as Partition Magic to do that job. The only way
to do it with DM is to delete one or more existing partitions or logical
drives and create one or more new ones in that space. And DM cannot do
anything with the System Partition or Boot Volume.
You said "an existing HD". But the answer is different if that HD has
already been partitioned, especially if ALL the space on the HD is already
included in an existing partition. But if you have unpartitioned space on
that HD, then Disk Management is the tool you should use.
RC
G
Guest
Thanks. I'll look into DM and if that doesn't work, get Partition Magic.
K
Ken Blake, MVP
karenr said:How do I partition an existing HD? Using Win xp Home.
Are you asking about *changing* an existing partition structure (even if
there if only one partition)?
Unfortunately, no version of Windows or DOS has ever had the ability to
change the partition structure of a drive without losing all the data on it.
To do so requires the use of a third-party program. Partition Magic is the
best-known such program, but there are shareware/freeware alternatives. One
shareware product that gets good reports from several MVPs (although I
haven't used it personally) is Bootit Next Generation.
G
Guest
Thank you...Partition Magic it is. Obviously the program of choice.
K
Ken Blake, MVP
karenr said:Thank you...Partition Magic it is. Obviously the program of choice.
You're welcome, but if it were me, I'd use Bootit Next Generation. When I
say I haven't used it myself, it's only because I've never needed to use
*any* such program.
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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