Laptop partitioning problem

Hi,

I recently bought a HP laptop with Intel Core Duo 1.73 GHz processor,
1GB DDR2 RAM, 100GB HDD and nVidia GO 7400 video card. It came
preinstalled with Windows XP Home. But there was a problem. After
keeping 10GB for a partition called HP_RECOVERY and 1GB more in a
unnamed and hidden partition, the rest is all dumped into a single NTFS
partition C.

When I tried to re-size the C partition to a smaller size using
PartitionMagic (only 13 GB were in use so there was plenty of free
space) the computer rebooted, windows loaded, PM started partitioning
and then midway through Checking user entries came up with an error
message and aborted. This repeated several times. What can I do to
split the drive space into smaller partitions? Thanks a lot.

Molu

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