partition

[pettah]

anybody have an XP os that has done a partition on a hard drive...i need help on it...how do partition it

[Starfury_2260]

Nevermind. It seems telling them about a tool that makes it easy to partition was a bad idea.

[HeadBand]

yeah it's really easy with xp...in the setup you can make and format partitions...unless you have a restore disk....then you can just use fdisk on a 98 bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com) and setup will reformat the c drive as ntfs and you can reformat the others as ntfs when windows is installed if you wish

if you want to do it without reformatting you need a 3rd party program like partition magic

[surreal]

What do you want to partition pettah?


Starfury, If someone asks for help with XP don't just post and tell them to get Partition Magic

[pettah]

i want to partition a new hard drive that i bought...i'm making it a slave drive...i want to use the whole 80 gig...

[HeadBand]

you should be able to run that as 1 partition...it sounds like you think it will be smaller without the partitioning...this is probobally not...unless it is your motherboard...which I think a motherboard that old shouldn't be running xp anyways....accually you could see in your bios to see what LBA is on

but...I completley understand if you just want the other drives

i would just use a 98 boot diak to partition it then when you get into windows you can reformat them as ntfs partitions if you want to...if you need mor instructions on partitioning with a 98 boot disk LMK

[pettah]

i want to partition a new hard drive that i bought...i'm making it a slave drive...i want to use the whole 80 gig...

[Dj-Icer]

XP OS has a completely different setup compare to the old Win 98 days. Much user friendly. Even after running the cd, you can easily follow the steps and partition your needs.

[pettah]

any idea how i would do that...give me directions..in details