Re: Partitioning?


I just replaced my boot drive with a larger Seagate ATA 320 Gig 16
MB
cache on a five year old computer. I used Seagate Tools to copy my
old
boot drive to my new drive and all went well. I can now boot from
the
new drive.

My Computer shows 388 Gigs of Free Space with WinXP Pro SP2 taking
up
10 Gigs for a total of 298 Gigs. Disk Manager shows one large
partition in healthy condition.

I would like to partition the drive to have a second partition at
the
end. Essentially I want to divide the drive in half so I have a C
and
D drive.

However, when I run the partitioning program from Seagate Tools, it
says that there is no free space. Does anyone know what I should do
to
get a partition going on the new drive?

Thanks,

Bob



You would have need to create seperate partions *prior* to cloning
the OS.

You now will either need to start over...or else use a 3rd party
utility


Ouch, I suspected that. Someone said to partition first. I assume that
if I wanted to start over, I would do a format of the whole drive. Is
that right?

Can anyone recommend a free or tryout utility that's not too difficult
to use?

Thanks,

Bob


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