Partitioning a large drive with new XP instal

[SDR]

I have a new 180gb drive which my Motherboard and bios can take. I
will instal new XP Prof on it. Will I be able to partiotion it on
instal or will it format the whole drive as one partition?

thanks

 

[Guest]

You will be able to partition on install but i would patition just the c drive then let disk administrator partition the rest of the drive the way you want

 

[SDR]

You will be able to partition on install but i would patition just the c drive then let disk administrator partition the rest of the drive the way you want

I may not have made it clear - it is a new unpartitioned drive - on
new instal will XP give me achoice to partition the drive into say
10GB C Drive or will it make the 180Gb as a C Drive?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I may not have made it clear - it is a new unpartitioned drive - on
new instal will XP give me achoice to partition the drive into say
10GB C Drive or will it make the 180Gb as a C Drive?

It will give you the choice. You can partition it any way you
want.

 

[Guest]

You will be able to patition on install. You can also partition the system partition on install. Then take care of the
other partitions through Windows System Managment console.

----- SDR wrote: -----



I have a new 180gb drive which my Motherboard and bios can take. I
will instal new XP Prof on it. Will I be able to partiotion it on
instal or will it format the whole drive as one partition?

thanks

 

[t.cruise]

Just make sure that you make the partition for Windows XP large enough.
Some haven't, and have regretted it later. There will be updates, and
programs that won't allow you to install to another partition. You have a
large drive, so don't be concerned about giving that partition some extra
GBs. Once the drive is partitioned and Windows XP is installed, Windows XP
will not allow you to resize that partition without losing the data on it.
A third party utility like Partition Magic 8* will allow for resizing
partitions on the fly without losing data, but there isn't a guaranty that
something won't go wrong.

 

[Goodge]

I purchased an HP computer with 120 gb hard drive. I found that once XP
(home) was installed I was not able to partition. Got Partition Magic
thinking this would make life easier... Said I couldn't partition primary
disc to less than 80 gb, not an awful lot of use to me. Created partitions
in the remaining space and resized. Has numerous problems (not surprising I
guess) and have finally resolved them with the primary hard drive resized to
60 gb. My main purpose is wanting to partition was to have the ability to
have another two primary drives, one for an alternative operating system and
one to store programs on. Partition Magic restricts you to logical drives
and allows one more primary drive, but it is only going to be accessible
once I install another operating system. I can see it in PM and Disk
Management, not in Explorer and cannot access it. Don't think there's much
magic in PM!!!!! Oh, and they don't provide back up as advertised.

My advice, partition BEFORE you install.

HTH

You will be able to patition on install. You can also partition the system

partition on install. Then take care of the

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a new 180gb drive which my Motherboard and bios can take. I
will instal new XP Prof on it. Will I be able to partiotion it on
instal or will it format the whole drive as one partition?

If you have XP with SP1 included, it would be able to handle it in one.
But I would strongly advise *not* doing so. Have the system and
programs in a separate modest partition (say 16GB) up front, so there is
some hope you could make a security backup of that against potential
disaster