partitions

[Paul Mars]

have C,D,E,F

need to split F into 2 partitions.

backup all F

went to use Fdisk to delete F and create F and G, except Fdisk says there
are no logical Dos drives in the extended Dos partition. When viewing the
partitions it shows the primary and the extended and says that there are
logical dos drives in the ext dos partition, but when I try and view or
delete, it says there are no logical dos drives.

What's wrong?

Paul

 

[Man-wai Chang]

have C,D,E,F

need to split F into 2 partitions.

backup all F

went to use Fdisk to delete F and create F and G, except Fdisk says there
are no logical Dos drives in the extended Dos partition. When viewing the
partitions it shows the primary and the extended and says that there are
logical dos drives in the ext dos partition, but when I try and view or
delete, it says there are no logical dos drives.

You should use Disk Administrator in Control Panel -> Computer Management

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[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

FDISK does not work with NTFS formatted partitions.. it can delete them, and
then recreate DOS partitions and that is as good as it gets..

Look to using Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director..

 

[Paul Mars]

Please walk me thru this. I am there and I see that I can "delete logical
drive", but just because it says that does not mean that it will do that and
will it let me create two new logical drives in its place? There is a
"change drive and letter paths" menu command, which has an "add" button, but
it will not add anything.

tks,
paul

 

[Paul Mars]

one more thing. In explorer D,E and F are all called "Local Disk (drive
letter, but in Computer management it is (E, then Local Disk (D, then
Local Disk (F. So E is listed after C and before D and it is not listed
"local disk".

Also, in the gui below under disk 0 the local Disk (F box has hash marks
in it. What's that? The other's don't.

p

 

[Sharon F]

one more thing. In explorer D,E and F are all called "Local Disk (drive
letter, but in Computer management it is (E, then Local Disk (D, then
Local Disk (F. So E is listed after C and before D and it is not listed
"local disk".

Drives are listed alphabetically by the volume name. Example a C: drive
named System will list after a D: drive named Apps. If you want C:, D: (and
so on) to be alphabetical in disk management, change the names.

Delete partition F:. Then "create partition." Assign a portion to F: and
the rest to the new G: partition. There is a help file in the management
console for Disk Management.