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| Thread ID: 56505 | 2005-04-07 02:42:00 | Partitioning a partition | Nyuuji (5460) | Press F1 |
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| 342323 | 2005-04-07 02:42:00 | Hello mighty pc guru's of PressF1. :p I have a 40GB hard drive, in two NTFS formatted 18GB partitions (C & D). Everything is cureently on C:drive, with D: empty. Is it possible to split D:drive further into a 13Gb and 5GB partition? Reason: I would like to install a game (Tribes3, 4.5GB) into its own partition as last time I installed on C:drive, it seemed to slow windows down a lot for some reason. If possible, can I do it through 'Disk Management"? Or do I need to recreate a partion like I did when I had to reinstall XP? Enlighten me oh' wise guru's. |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 342324 | 2005-04-07 02:49:00 | "can I do it through 'Disk Management"? Or do I need to recreate a partion like I did when I had to reinstall XP?" Use disk management - which will be in effect recreating your partitons. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 342325 | 2005-04-07 03:03:00 | You cant use Disk Management in Xp Home you will need something like Partition Magic 8 :thumbs: | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 342326 | 2005-04-07 03:20:00 | :) Thanks pctek. Had a poke around in disk management, went down a few wrong paths, but found my way, and it was embbaresenly simple. Didn't take more thatn 5 mins :blush: Cheerz |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 342327 | 2005-04-07 05:09:00 | You cant use Disk Management in Xp Home you will need something like Partition Magic 8 :thumbs: If it is a partition other than what Windows resides on you certainly can resize it but you will lose any data on it. Not a problem if you can backup your data otherwise Partition Magic or another non-destructive partition resizing program will need to be used. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 342328 | 2005-04-07 05:16:00 | I think people misunderstood my post. Windows XP Home Disk management wont let you create or resize partitions only in XP pro will it work so Nyuuji must be running Xp Pro not home as stated in his Sig | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 342329 | 2005-04-07 05:22:00 | I think people misunderstood my post. Windows XP Home Disk management wont let you create or resize partitions only in XP pro will it work so Nyuuji must be running Xp Pro not home as stated in his Sig Surely XP Home will allow you to delete a partition (empty in this case) and create two new ones in the space thus freed. I rather think it did. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 342330 | 2005-04-07 05:32:00 | I probably still don't understand what you mean but I have Windows XP Home and have deleted my D, E, and F partitions, then created D, E, F, G, H and I partitions, all from within Disk Management . This is while Windows was residing on my C drive . When I first setup the hard drives on this computer I only created one 10GB partition for Windows when installing it and did the remaining partitions later . They didn't suit me hence me deleting and recreating them . Are you saying that isn't possible or do you mean something else again? :confused: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 342331 | 2005-04-07 05:34:00 | I apologize now :D just found out that it can (thru experimenting) mind you I was told at my course back in 2002 that it wouldnt work with Xp home. I sure feel stupid right about now :lol: | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
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