PARTITIONING WINDOWS 2000

[john]

I have a 60G hard drive and have used FAT32 partition but
did not specify to create a second partition. So right
now have a 32G partition. Is there a way I can create a
new partition without starting over?

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, John.

Is there a way I can create a
new partition without starting over?

Maybe. It depends on factors you didn't tell us about.

Is this your only HD? Is Win2K already installed on it and running? Or is
this a second HD, with Win2K already installed on a primary drive?

If so, then your problem is quite simple. Use Disk Management to create one
or more new partitions in the unused space, assign drive letters, and format
them as either FAT or NTFS.

Disk Management is buried under lots of mouse-clicks. I prefer to start it
by typing at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc. Take some time to study Disk
Management, including its Help file. This new built-in utility does a lot
of jobs that we did with other tools in older Windows based on MS-DOS: It
creates and deletes partitions, which we did by booting to MS-DOS and using
FDISK. It formats volumes, which we used to do with Format.exe. And it
assigns and reassigns drive letters, which we did with Device Manager in
Win9x/ME.

You could still use an MS-DOS boot floppy and FDISK and Format.exe, of
course, but Disk Management is the better tool for the future.

Tell us more about how many HDs you have and how they are formatted. Also
tell us which operating systems you have and where they are installed on
your computer. Then we can give you more-specific advice.

RC

 

[John]

I only have 1 HD and it does have WINDOWS 2000 on it. I
have looked in Disk Management but was a bit confused on
how to do it. It only show one partition which was 32G.
Thank you very much for your answer.

 

[John]

Actually when I go to DISKMGMT it only lists C: with 32G.
It does not list any unallocated space, but I have my hard
drive out of the box and it is a 60G. So I have nothing to
select to create the additional partition.

 

[Britten Martin [MSFT]]

John ...

A couple of things to look at ...

1. Boot into the BIOS. How large does the BIOS see the drive should be?
2. What type of drive is it (make/model)? What type of controller?
3. Make certain you have the latest BIOS for your system. If there is
firmware for the controller, make certain you have that updated. Also
update the controller driver.
4. Put SP4 on the system.

One things comes to mind ... If you installed 2K cleanly and did not change
the size of the install partition, then it will take the entire addressable
free space to create the system/boot partition. That being said, it gives
credence to the fact that this is either a 32 GB drive or we can only see
32GB. If we can only see 32GB, then we need to update all the key parts
(firmware/driver).

Let us know if this does not work.

Britten Martin [MSFT]
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[R. C. White]

Hi, John.

Take another look in Disk Management. You can change the View to suit
yourself. I prefer to make it full-screen and show the Folder List in the
top and the Graphical View at the bottom.

Remember that C: (or any letter) is only a VOLUME (primary partition or
logical drive in an extended partition), not the whole physical drive.
There will never be any unallocated space within Drive C:, even if it is
only a 1 GB volume on a 120 GB HD.

What does DM show for Disk 0 (zero)?

RC

 

[Overlord]

Hi John.
Not really sure what you're after here.
Why not just open admin tools/disk management and see if you can
create a partition on the left over space?
If you are talking about the 32gig partition.... unless it was
addressed in subsequent SPs (doubtful), 2K will only make a FAT32
partition to 32gig. If you are wanting a larger FAT32 partition then
partition/format it to FAT32 from a Win98 boot disk and 2K will use it
just fine.

I have a 60G hard drive and have used FAT32 partition but
did not specify to create a second partition. So right
now have a 32G partition. Is there a way I can create a
new partition without starting over?

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