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 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.



Well, I finally got it. I chatted with Seagate from their site and was
told that I was using a very old version of Disk Wizard. I downloaded
the new version and it was great. In one operation it formatted the
new drive, partitioned the drives to my specs, and copied both my C
and D drives to the correct locations. The interface was self
explanatory and it went very smoothly.

Thank you all for all your help. I appreciate it very much.

Bob


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