I am running XP SP2 on one of my machines at work. When I attempt to use

Disk Management to create a second partition of the C-drive (the drive is

more than half empty), tt indicates that the entire drive is taken up by the

original partition, and I get no option to make a second partition. I am

logged on as Administrator.

 

Do you have any idea what is blocking my attempt to make a second partition?

 

--

John

You will need a third party utility like Partition Magic, Acronis Disk

Director

or BootIt Next Gen which has a free trial.

 

BootIt: http://www.bootitng.com/

Acronis:

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/partitioning.html

Partition Magic:

http://www.powerquest.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80

 

As always backup any important data files (documents, photos, music, etc.),

before using such a tool as there is always a small chance that something

can go wrong.

 

Better still backup you entire C: partition to an external drive

or a second internal drive. You can use Acronis True Image to do this.

 

JS

 

"John" <jREMOVEcmcf@rocketmail.com> wrote in message

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>I am running XP SP2 on one of my machines at work. When I attempt to use

> Disk Management to create a second partition of the C-drive (the drive is

> more than half empty), tt indicates that the entire drive is taken up by

> the

> original partition, and I get no option to make a second partition. I am

> logged on as Administrator.

>

> Do you have any idea what is blocking my attempt to make a second

> partition?

>

> --

> John

"John" <jREMOVEcmcf@rocketmail.com> wrote in message

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>I am running XP SP2 on one of my machines at work. When I attempt to

>use

> Disk Management to create a second partition of the C-drive (the drive

> is

> more than half empty), tt indicates that the entire drive is taken up

> by the

> original partition, and I get no option to make a second partition. I

> am

> logged on as Administrator.

 

 

A partition that is empty is NOT an unused section of that partition.

That space is still allocated for use within that partition. No utility

has ever been provided with any version of Windows that lets you resize

or move partitions. You will need to use a 3rd party program to reduce

the size of the partition that is currently using all of the hard

drive's capacity and then create a new partition in the newly

unallocated disk space. Ranish Partition Manager is free but I've never

used it as I still have an old version of PartitionMagic.

 

 

By the way, when munging your e-mail address, FIRST munge the domain.

Stop energizing spambots to target a valid domain and wasting their

resources to report to the sending mail server that no such account

exists (but it could exist by that username if someone else had it so

you end up sending the spam to their account). Munging should always

include the domain, and munge to a domain that is known NOT to be

registered (don't just ping it but do a domain lookup to check that no

one has that domain name registered). Munging the domain is far more

important and considerate than munging your username. You can munge

both but munging just the domain is sufficient.

Windows has never included the capability to resize partitions without data

loss.

There are many third party applications that allow you to resize partitions

without data loss.

If you have to ask, you probably should have help making changes to the

partitions.

If your HDD REALLY has unallocated space (that means space that is not

already part of a partition), you can boot from the XP CD and during

prepping for installation, make the unallocated space into a partition. But

be very very careful, messing with the wrong partition could result in the

need for a complete reinstallation. Many OEMs have a partition on the HDD

specifically for restoring the machine to factory condition (as far as the

software environment goes). If you delete that, you will lose the ability to

do a system recovery.

 

If you have created a new partition, once you boot back to XP, just go to My

Computer, double click the newly created partition & XP will tell you, This

disk is not formatted, would you like to format it now. Once formatted, the

partition should be useable.

 

--

A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!

CarGodZeroOne@hotmail.com

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"John" <jREMOVEcmcf@rocketmail.com> wrote in message

news:BB9C968F-1A48-444D-ADFE-605DDB8922CE@microsoft.com...

>I am running XP SP2 on one of my machines at work. When I attempt to use

> Disk Management to create a second partition of the C-drive (the drive is

> more than half empty), tt indicates that the entire drive is taken up by

> the

> original partition, and I get no option to make a second partition. I am

> logged on as Administrator.

>

> Do you have any idea what is blocking my attempt to make a second

> partition?

>

> --

> John