partitioning my C Drive

[Denise]

I would like to know how to partition my c drive the
proper way.

Thank you

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Denise,

What's "proper" depends on what results you want. WinXP's drive tool is
fairly limited in that it can only create and destroy partitions. It cannot
resize them. For more functionality, you need third-party partitioning
software. But, again, this depends on where you currently are and where you
want to end up. Please post back.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

There is nothing you can do to change the partition that contains the
Windows directory. If your Windows directory is on C: and that partition
fills the entire hard disk and you have only one hard disk, you are all
set. Nothing more can or need be done.

If you upgraded from 9x and you would like account privacy and file
system permissions, read about the convert.exe command to convert from
FAT32 to NTFS.

 

[Frank]

Kent W. England [MVP] wrote:

| There is nothing you can do to change the partition that contains the
| Windows directory. If your Windows directory is on C: and that
| partition fills the entire hard disk and you have only one hard disk,
| you are all set. Nothing more can or need be done.
|
| If you upgraded from 9x and you would like account privacy and file
| system permissions, read about the convert.exe command to convert from
| FAT32 to NTFS.
|
|
|| I would like to know how to partition my c drive the
|| proper way.
||
|| Thank you

When _converting_ from FAT32 to NTFS it leaves the
cluster size really small which affects overall performance.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

That can be fixed. See http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm for full
information on converting FAT32 to NTFS to avoid this problem.