Railman5 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Just about to take delivery of new lap top. It has an 80gig HDD with XP Pro installed - presumably to 1 C:\ Drive.Seeking opinionsand yes I have searched the forum and to my surprise I can't find any info Can I use the XP Disk management feature to divide the disk up to say C:\ drive 50gig, then a new drive, D:\ of the remaining space (just under 30gig)?Last thing I really want to do is Fdisk the whole lot if I can't, will partition magic for XP do the job?thanks B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDGC Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Just 4 days ago I did similar on a new Dell 8400 desktop with XP Pro SP2 installed. I used BootIt NG. Have a look at it - partitioning, imaging, and boot management. Free 30 day trial or $US35 to buy.http://www.bootitng.com/I've used it on many occasions for various partitioning procedures and image creation and restoration - and not had any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wullieb1 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 As far as i'm aware there is no partition re-size native within windows xp.Personally i use PM8 but there are free tools out there that can do this.http://www.webtree.ca/newlife/partresizer_info.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Windows doesnt support it.. a 3rd party utility is a must..As everyone else.. i have my own preference.. PartitionMagic8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefoxthebomb Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 I too would use partition magic, it has never let me down yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 PM8 is the best you can find for this kind of stuff. Hands down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydr0g3n Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 This worked for me when I wanted to resize a partition and install Windows XP 64bit. Plus it is handy if you ever have to deal with system crashes and booting problems. It has a Partition Magic clone. Also its completely free!System Rescue CD(Ignore the stuff about just being for Linux, works fine with Windows)It's my preference, but it's your choice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjz Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 There are several free linux like part tools on the ubcd. Those are free. Use those if none of the other options work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railman5 Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 Thanks to all who gave their opinion.I have managed to track down Partition magig 8 so I am going to play around with that to see how it goes.any problems with it and I'll be right back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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