Re: Partitioning?

BobK wrote:
Hello,

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 can resize the partition you are using and grow the free space to what ever size you want the new partition. There are many free partition tools out there. My favorite is gparted live cd. Just download the .iso and burn the cd then boot it. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

There is also Presizer from Zelps: http://www.zeleps.com/download.html
Allows you to resize partitions.



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