Partition

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Do you have to have a 2nd hard drive to do a 2nd partition? I have just upraded to XP from ME and having trouble. Thanks
 
You can divide or partition a hard drive into as many 'pieces' as you want.

Liz said:
Do you have to have a 2nd hard drive to do a 2nd partition? I have just
Click to expand...
upraded to XP from ME and having trouble. Thanks
 
Hi Liz,

To partition the drive, you will need to either format and partition the
drive or use a 3rd party program like PartitionMagic. To format the drive
would be starting over again. If you want information on how to do a clean
install, that's what it's called when you format and install, see the
following link.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Thanks to Michael Stevens

HTH, JAX

Liz said:
Do you have to have a 2nd hard drive to do a 2nd partition? I have just
Click to expand...
upraded to XP from ME and having trouble. Thanks
 
JAX said:
To partition the drive, you will need to either format and partition the
drive or use a 3rd party program like PartitionMagic. To format the drive
would be starting over again.
Click to expand...

To be precise, there is no "format the drive". You can only
create and delete partitions on the drive. At best you can
stretch, shrink, or shift them around using special third party
software like BootIt NG or Partition Magic.

But formatting is something you can only do to a partition, not
to a drive.

Hans-Georg
 
Thank

Now I have tried to create a partition but it says there is no allocated space? How do I allocate space to make a 2nd partition? I have over 14gigs free on my computer

Thanks
 
Liz said:
Now I have tried to create a partition but it says there is no allocated space? How do I allocate space to make a 2nd partition? I have over 14gigs free on my computer.
Click to expand...

Liz,

normally you do that in control panel, administration, computer
administration, disk manager. Have you tried this?

Hans-Georg
 
I have gone to disk management but have not been able to do anything with it. There is no option to partition the drive.
 
That is hair splitting the term. I think the OP got the correct information,
in a way they could understand.

JAX
 
<<<To partition the drive, you will need to either format and partition the
drive>>>>

That's just it, it won't let me partition it at all. There is no option for it. I have done a clean install and still it would not let me delete the current partition. It said something like there are temporary files needed to complete the installation. Any ideas.. I must be doing this wrong.
 
You need unpartioned (free) space on the drive to be able to add a partition in disk management. All of your space has apparently been used by the system drive (C).

Buy a 3rd party tool to do it - or start over. I use PartitionExpert from www.acronis.com.
 
<<<You need unpartioned (free) space on the drive to be able to add a partition in disk management. All of your space has apparently been used by the system drive (C).>>>

But I have about 14 gigs of free space on C:
 
Liz ... free space on a partition is not the same as unallocated space
on the hard drive ... which is what mrtee is saying.

If, for instance, you have a 40 gb hard drive and all of it is allocated
to C:, then you have no unallocated space in which to create another
partition, even if you have 14 gb free space on the C: partition.

You can't format your only partition C: because it contains your OS, and
XP won't let you 'self destruct'.

Go to Disk Management (Start, Run, type in 'diskmgmt.msc' [without the
quotes]) and check to see if you show any unallocated space on Disk 0.
If not, you'll need to use a third-party program to 'shrink' partition
C: so as to create some space for the new partition. Partition Magic is
one such program. BootIt NG is another that has a 30-day free trial
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
 
Liz said:
But I have about 14 gigs of free space on C:
Click to expand...

Liz,

I see you already got very good advice.

I only want to add that you could think again about whether you
really need a second partition at all. One good reason for a
second partition would be that you want to install a different
operating system along with the existing one. But otherwise you
may well find that a new folder serves the purpose at least as
well as a separate partition.

Hans-Georg
 
Back
Top