Partitioning

[anon]

What is the procedure to create more than 1 partition on a hard drive?

 

[Bill in Co.]

What is the procedure to create more than 1 partition on a hard drive?

Google is your friend. And get Partition Magic (or something similar).

 

[Rock]

What is the procedure to create more than 1 partition on a hard drive?

XP does not have tools for creating additional partitions on a drive unless
it has unallocated space, that is space on the drive not assigned to a
partition. If there is no unallocated space then third party tools are
needed. A popular commercial product is Acronis Disk Director.

See this article:
How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/

 

[Ron Badour]

BootIt Next Generation is available from:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html and it does partitioning,
makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot
manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half
the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a
*full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a
lot of support articles.

 

[Bill in Co.]

But if this guy is just starting out, Ron, I wouldn't recommend BING. It
is definitely not as easy or straightforward as PM.

 

[Ron Badour]

I disagree Bill--BootIt NG is not that difficult to use, especially when
doing minor partitioning jobs like he asked about. PM costs $70 while BING
costs $35 and if it is a one-time partitioning job he wants to do, he can do
it free with BING or pay $70 to use PM.