Hard Drive installation question.

[Mears]

Ok, let me give you what I have now:

Drive 1:

Partition 1: 7gb NTFS partition with WinXP
Partition 2: 33gb FAT32

I just got a new 100gb hard drive and what I want to do is create to partitions on it. The first partition I want to create will be 15 gb NTFS and then the remaining space will be a single FAT32 partition. Then I'll ghost the old paritions to the new ones and create a single FAT32 partition on the old drive. The only problem is, I want to create the NTFS parition at the beginning of the drive. However, WinXP's setup can't create FAT32 paritions that are 40+ gb and the ez-disk utilities I got with my Western Digital drive, can't create NTFS partitions. I could create the FAT32 partitions in ez-disk, but then the one would be at the front of the drive and I want that space to be reserved for the NTFS partition. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to:

1. Create a 15gb NTFS partition on the front of Disk A
2. Create a 85gb FAT32 parition succeeding the NTFS parition on Disk A

Thanks,
Mears

 

[Trashman]

This may not be the smartest way, maybe more advanced users can give ya better option's but I'll throw out this idea, can't ya download a 98 bootdisk or use ez-disk utilities that came with your WD, and format the 2 partitions usin fat32, restart with xp cd, blow away the 1st partition and have xp partition and format in NTFS, that way you'd have your 2nd partition already there.
I never have come across that problem, since I don't have HD's that size....just a thought.

 

[Mears]

Hey trashman, thanks for the reply. It's kinda bootleg, but it should work.

 

[Trashman]

yeah,in a way it does sound bootleg 😀, but should work, only work around way I could come up with.