leedolman Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 I've recently formatted my HD and reinstalled XP. I created a partition during the setup, so I have a drive with backup files and my main storage area. I now want to create another partition, so that i have one for backup, 1 for system files and 1 for documents. is there anyway to create a new partition or will I have to reformat and create the partitions that way?thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 You won't need to reformat if you use software such as Powerquest's PartitionMagic 8 or Acronis' Partition Expert 2003. Unfortunately, PM8 is a demonstration only (changes won't take effect) and Partition Expert doesn't have a trial download.edit: Actually it does, I'm blind! http://www.acronis.com/download/partitionexpert/ (but also another demo ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdphr3@kXP Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Im assuming that u hav assigned all of the available space on ur drive to the partitions that u hav already created? Well if thats the case, then follow aaron's advice. If u still got unallocated space, then u should b able to use the winxp computer management tool (in your administration tools in control panel) to define and format another partition. This eliminates the need to download any software to resize partitions etc...BUT if u need to resize partitions, then u should follow aaron's advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipp51 Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 I use Partition Magic 8 and it is well worth having around.It finds any hidden partitions,deletes partitons,realocates the space made by the aforementioned,and creates new ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SqueakyByte Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 i just use dos :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Hmmmm...Have you tried using "Drive Management" in Windows? I've used a few times now and it works great! You can define the sizes, the file system, the drive letter, etc...Dunno why no one has ever suggested this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunil Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Hmmmm...Have you tried using "Drive Management" in Windows? I've used a few times now and it works great! You can define the sizes, the file system, the drive letter, etc...Dunno why no one has ever suggested this...It is not possible to change the size of partitions using the drive management feature under windows, to do this you will need an unformatted drive to do this, to partition a formatted drive you need a third party tool to achieve this..such as partition magic..Sunil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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