grim_reefer Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 i want to partition a hard drive - but when all the free space is originally allocated to the C: drive, leaving no free space to partition and assign a drive letter - what do i do?i asssume i need to unallocate the space from drive C: somehow... dunno :whistling: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Why do you want to partition this drive?I have only rarely, if ever, found any need to split any drive in this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim_reefer Posted July 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 i havent partitioned a computer in a long timewhen i was a teenage child i compressed my hard-drive and it partitioned it aswell and made a extra drive - i had about double the hard drive space as before (250MB became 500MB lol)... this was back in Windows 3.11 days though and i used DRVSPACE in Dos (suprisied i remember that)anyway - the reason is, i want to install Windows XP Home.. transfer everything to it, and uninstall Windows XP Professional - remvoe the original partition and have the new partition as the boot sector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim_reefer Posted July 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 the other way would be to copy all our files to my portable drive, then format and install Windows XP Home Editionthe problem is Windows is acting up and we dont have the XP Professional CD to repair the installation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 How about using Partition Magic.http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim_reefer Posted July 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 thanx trackrathold that thought though.. i may be able to fix all the problems with the computer if i reinstall the drivers for everything (because we do have the DRIVER cd but not the XP Pro installation cd).. is there a quick way to update ALL drivers at once though?? :huh: and not do each one manually in Device Manager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Partition Magic works great.What I recomend though, is backing everything up, boot from a windows 98 boot disk, and fdisk.You can set up your partitions from there. and it costs nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 As far as I'm aware though, you can't use fdisk to split a drive that already has an o/s installed on it....... or can you?? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 It's very dangerous using MSDOS FAT utilities (fdisk) on a Calderra DOS NTFS setup. I'm a bit doubtful you could do it. The two DOS systems are mutually incompatible.I think Partition Magic is the way to go although Acronis True Image has something it it that will partition drives (I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Partition Magic works great.What I recomend though, is backing everything up, boot from a windows 98 boot disk, and fdisk.You can set up your partitions from there. and it costs nothing.I forgot to add that the backup was for putting your data back on AFTER FORMATTING :P fdisk will wipe out your drive, espeically NTFS. (win2k and xp) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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