Partitioning?

[BobK]

Hello,

I just replaced my boot drive with a larger Seagate ATA 320 Gig 16 MB
cache on a five year old computer. I used Seagate Tools to copy my old
boot drive to my new drive and all went well. I can now boot from the
new drive.

My Computer shows 388 Gigs of Free Space with WinXP Pro SP2 taking up
10 Gigs for a total of 298 Gigs. Disk Manager shows one large
partition in healthy condition.

I would like to partition the drive to have a second partition at the
end. Essentially I want to divide the drive in half so I have a C and
D drive.

However, when I run the partitioning program from Seagate Tools, it
says that there is no free space. Does anyone know what I should do to
get a partition going on the new drive?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[BobK]

You would have need to create seperate partions *prior* to cloning
the OS.

You now will either need to start over...or else use a 3rd party
utility

Ouch, I suspected that. Someone said to partition first. I assume that
if I wanted to start over, I would do a format of the whole drive. Is
that right?

Can anyone recommend a free or tryout utility that's not too difficult
to use?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[John]

Ouch, I suspected that. Someone said to partition first. I assume that
if I wanted to start over, I would do a format of the whole drive. Is
that right?

Can anyone recommend a free or tryout utility that's not too difficult
to use?

Thanks,

Bob

Use your OS CD to set up the partitions. Once its partitioned and
formatted stop the install and use the Seagate tools to put in the clone.

John

 

[sandy58]

Ouch, I suspected that. Someone said to partition first. I assume that
if I wanted to start over, I would do a format of the whole drive. Is
that right?

Can anyone recommend a free or tryout utility that's not too difficult
to use?

Thanks,

Bob

Try this top one, Bob. It's from FOSI so it's full version.The other
is for a cd. Good luck.
Paragon Partition Manager Professional 9.0
http://rapidshare.com/files/86702751/Paragon_Partition_Manager_9.0_Professional_Retail-FOSI.rar

Paragon Recovery CD Image Pro 9
http://rapidshare.com/files/86756760/PPM_Pro.9.0_Recovery_CD_Image.rar

 

[BobK]

You can resize the partition you are using and grow the free space
to what ever size you want the new partition. There are many free
partition tools out there. My favorite is gparted live cd. Just
download the .iso and burn the cd then boot it.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

There is also Presizer from Zelps:
http://www.zeleps.com/download.html
Allows you to resize partitions.

Well, I finally got it. I chatted with Seagate from their site and was
told that I was using a very old version of Disk Wizard. I downloaded
the new version and it was great. In one operation it formatted the
new drive, partitioned the drives to my specs, and copied both my C
and D drives to the correct locations. The interface was self
explanatory and it went very smoothly.

Thank you all for all your help. I appreciate it very much.

Bob

 

[John Doe]

You would have need to create seperate partions *prior* to cloning
the OS.

You now will either need to start over...or else use a 3rd party
utility

I remember it well... the days of fixed partition sizes...
over 10 years ago.