Re: Partitioning?

BobK wrote:
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


Use your OS CD to set up the partitions. Once its partitioned and formatted stop the install and use the Seagate tools to put in the clone.

John
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