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re: partitioning with xp Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:03 am Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) If you have only One Partition already you can't use XP Disk Management to Partition. If you have a Second Partition without Windows on it. You could delete the Partition, and create a couple Partitions from the unallocted space that is created when the Partition was Deleted. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:41 am Posted by dawn (2 messages posted) Thanks Steve. I do only have the C partition and the HP restore sector so ovbiously XP won't work. I am planning to try Partition Magic unless you - or anyone else - has any other suggestions. Many thanks for your help. Dawn [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:57 am Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) Backup before you try Partition Magic. I used Partition Magic on my Brand new Laptop, and it trashed the Drive. At least I got to try my Laptops System Restore DVD, and 30 minutes later windows was reinstalled, but I left it with just one partition at that point.:) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:05 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) There is a free program called Partition Logic which does the same thing Partition Magic does. Don't know how good it is as I have no personal experience with it. After reading many posts on this forum where Partition Magic trashed the hard drive, I would recommend that you invest in a 2nd hard drive. Then you will have lots of space. If you don't want to do that, my 2nd choice would be to save personal data, do a Clean Install of XP, deleting the existing partition and creating 2 new ones then install to the first one. restore your data then format the 2nd for use as a data partition. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:31 pm Posted by alex (2812 messages posted) Rich is giving you a good advice.Two drives is the best I have 3,you have 2 machines in one.And you can have a few more partitions.More the merrier.And with 2nd. HD lost data what is that?Thing of the past.About Partition Logic I tried it last year didn't like it but that could be because I have PM 7 and to this day never had and accident.Must be 4 or 5 years now.Not for NTFS, and PM 8 is not 100% reliable in NTFS. On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:05 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >There is a free program called Partition Logic which does the same thing Partition >Magic does. Don't know how good it is as I have no personal experience with it. >target=_blank href=http://partitionlogic.org.uk/ > After reading many posts on this forum where Partition Magic trashed the hard >drive, I would recommend that you invest in a 2nd hard drive. Then you will have >lots of space. If you don't want to do that, my 2nd choice would be to save personal >data, do a Clean Install of XP, deleting the existing partition and creating 2 new >ones then install to the first one. restore your data then format the 2nd for use >as a data partition. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:33 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) Beware of Partiton Magic. On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:41 am, dawn wrote: >Thanks Steve. I do only have the C partition and the HP restore sector so ovbiously >XP won't work. I am planning to try Partition Magic unless you - or anyone else - >has any other suggestions. Many thanks for your help. > >Dawn [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 4:12 am Posted by Paulina (3264 messages posted) Think VERY carefully about why you want an extra partition and the reasons for it. partitioning and perhaps re-installing XP on a Laptop can be/will be fraught with danger unless you have ALL the proprietary drivers and CDs that a Laptop requires. An external Hard Drive may be by far the easiest solution for you. Paulina [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 1:28 pm Posted by julioaqua (2 messages posted) Hello Paulina, and the others that have a similar problem : I have just bought a LG TX and it has one partition , maybe you are right ...why to have 2 partitions when you can have to HHD......you think it is out of the question to try to make a C with programs files and Windows and a D with personal data ? ( I have tried with Partition Magic 8 , and maybe because I do not know the program well I did not suceded.........instructions to make a partion of the only parttion C with partition magic or any other program ? ?? Thank you in advance ....Julio On Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 4:12 am, Paulina wrote: > > > >Think VERY carefully about why you want an extra partition and the reasons for it. > partitioning and perhaps re-installing XP on a Laptop can be/will be fraught with >danger unless you have ALL the proprietary drivers and CDs that a Laptop requires. > >An external Hard Drive may be by far the easiest solution for you. > > > > > >Paulina [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 1:39 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Have you backed up your data before you started doing this? If not, your exposing yourself to complete loss of all data. If it's a new system then this may not matter. Using Partiton Magic, you first have to shrink the existing partition size. Then you create a new partition in the now available, unused space. Once you have all the steps selected you start it and it does each one in turn. Cross fingers, eyes, legs and hold you breath, a small prayer would not be out of the question either :-) and hope that it completes successfully. Dont' touch the computer till it finishes. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 4:02 pm Posted by julioaqua (2 messages posted) Hello Rich , thank you for your prompt answer . I did not back up any data because it is a brand new laptop ......with only one partition .....C = 60 GB. I wanted to have a D for my data , but something went wrong. Do you know any link to tutorials Partition Magic that tackle this specific situation ? I promise I will cross all I have waiting for a happy end .... But the annoying XMNT 2002 ......how can I get ryd of it ? Thank you again Julio On Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 12:39 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >Have you backed up your data before you started doing this? If not, your exposing >yourself to complete loss of all data. If it's a new system then this may not matter. > Using Partiton Magic, you first have to shrink the existing partition size. Then >you create a new partition in the now available, unused space. Once you have all >the steps selected you start it and it does each one in turn. > Cross fingers, eyes, legs and hold you breath, a small prayer would not be out >of the question either :-) and hope that it completes successfully. Dont' touch the >computer till it finishes. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: partitioning with xp Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 6:02 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Only what is available from the Symantec site. What kind of problem did you have? It does not work at all if there are hard drive problems of any kind, just gives up with a useless error message at best and a trashed drive at worst. Most of the failures I encounterd were at the end of the process after it had completed a lot of the tasks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum