Hi,

Another one since reinstalling XP: how the f*ck do I add partitions to the system! The disk is 80Gig, with 14 of'em reserved for C:. This should leave some 66Gig to be partitioned.

But I can't find any way to accomplish the task of partitioning that remainder!

Who can shed a light on this matter?

OldFart

_________________
Life is a waste of time.
Time is a waste of life.
Get wasted all the time
and you'll have the time of your life!

@OldFart

Log on as an administrator.

Start > (somehwere, depending, usually control panel) > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, then its under Storage > Disk Management.

Last edited by gnarly on 20-Jun-2005 at 09:40 AM.

_________________

@OldFart

1. Ether right click on “my Computer” on your desktop and select “manage” or if you have the Fisher Price look GUI switched on open “Windows Explorer” the right click on my computer and select “manage”.

2. Click on the “Storage” tab then select Disk Management.

3. You should now have a list of partitions in the top half of the window and a list of disks on the bottom part of the window.

4. Select the free space on your disk and start creating partitions and formatting them in NTFS or FAT32.

_________________
Sam440ep 667mhz, 512MB, 120GB 2.5" HD, OS4.1FE
WinUae 3.0.0, OS 3.9, BB3, Catweasel MkIV
Amiga 1200, Blizzard 040/40 (BlizzardPPC 060/200 with SCSI removed at present), mediatorSX pci, Voodoo3, PCI network card os 3.9BB2
4MB Minimig with ARM addon boar

@gnarly

To summarize:
Well hidden

_________________
This weeks pet peeve:
Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

@gnarly

Or just go to Start> Run> and type "compmgmt.msc" and access it there.

(oops...not enough coffee yet. )

Last edited by Herewegoagain on 20-Jun-2005 at 11:31 AM.

@OldFart

I use PartitionMagic 8.0 for my hard drives... its very easy to use and Lets u use the FULL size of the harddrive!


Darow!

_________________
_-DaCrow-_

@olegil

Quote:

@gnarly To summarize: Well hidden

To summarize:
Well said

OldFart

_________________
Life is a waste of time.
Time is a waste of life.
Get wasted all the time
and you'll have the time of your life!

@OldFart

Yes it is a stoopid question for an Amiga site

Rude!

_________________

@Rudei

Quote:

Rudei wrote: @OldFart Yes it is a stoopid question for an Amiga site Rude!

considering most users are reduced to winuae or some other version of uae to run classic progs & games is it really that odd that someone needs help wih windows,or linux, mac os, or even aos4.

_________________
Win•dows: n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.

@Herewegoagain

You mean you didn't even play around with diskpart or fdisk

@dacrow

I use PM8 a lot as well. A very powerful and easy to use application that all OS's should have for them

_________________
Test sig (new)

@_Steve_

Well, having said that, HDToolbox was always a heck of a lot nicer to use than DiskPart or FDisk, but PM8's ability to resize and relocate partitiions without destroying the partition itself is a nice feature.

_________________
Test sig (new)

@jkirk

Considering I put a smilee after the remark, is it really odd that I should make a joke?

_________________

@Rudei

Quote:

Yes it is a stoopid question for an Amiga site

Some questions stoop indeed very low!

OldFart

_________________
Life is a waste of time.
Time is a waste of life.
Get wasted all the time
and you'll have the time of your life!

@jkirk

Quote:

considering most users are reduced to winuae or some...

I must say I do own the full monty of Amiga: an A1200 AND an A1, but to recognize the sheer conceptual superiority of Amiga OS one sometimes has to revert to something as low as Windows.

OldFart

_________________
Life is a waste of time.
Time is a waste of life.
Get wasted all the time
and you'll have the time of your life!

@Rudei



nah don't take it personally just trying to make sure the topic didn't degrade.

@steve

i definitely prefer partition magic to any other partitioning software. however i am not sure i want version 8 since symantec has it. guess i need to find a new non-destructive partitioning software package. especially if symantec embedded their drm system in it.

_________________
Win•dows: n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.

@OldFart

When installing XP you can partition the harddrive at that time.

It seems you want to shrink the C: drive which appears to be the whole 80GB drive. I don't believe Windows allows you to resegment the main drive to do that you'd need some tools for disk management such as Partition Magic. Alternatively you could do it free as Knoppix allows you resize NTFS partitions.

@BrianK

the way i understood it 14 gig is the system drive out of 80. the rest is unformatted and unpartitioned.


knoppix shrinks ntfs partitions? i may have to look into this. does it support large drives >160 gb?

Last edited by jkirk on 20-Jun-2005 at 02:00 PM.

_________________
Win•dows: n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.

@OldFart

Quote:

The disk is 80Gig, with 14 of'em reserved for C:. This should leave some 66Gig to be partitioned. OldFart

Careful about that 66 Gigs. If you use all of it for a new partition, you're going to have some big problems. For one thing, the 14 gigs in C is used for things like the recylce bin which varies in size depending on what you happen to "delete." (Press the {SHIFT} key to get a true delete; that is, to bypass the recycle bin.) I once had C: set to 30 gigs and then happened to use Photoshop Album to archive several hundred images. It turned out that when Photoshop Album finished archiving the images to CD it thoughtfully "deleted" them to the recycle bin. The 30 gigs disappeared real fast and the partition became all but unusable. I had to use Partition Magic to resize my partitions and get enough space to defragment and clean C:

And that brings up the other problem you'll have if you don't leave enough space on C:. You'll get a lot of fragmentation problems and you won't have enough space left to defrag efficiently.

You'll also find that some applications are going to default parts of their housekeeping to C: and you may not be able to alter that behavior.

An 80 gig drive isn't very large in Windows if you're really using the PC for lots of data-intensive things. It should be fine for the typical laptop applications, but on a desktop system it can become marginal pretty fast.

HB

@jkirk

The version I have is PowerQuests one before Symantec bought them out. I have DriveImage too, which is a nice (little) piece of software too.

_________________
Test sig (new)

@jkirk

I believe Ntfsresize is what you're looking for.
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

Within Knoppix it's included in the ntfsprogs.
http://kress.homelinux.org/cgi-bin/dwww?type=runman&location=ntfsprogs/8