Hard drive Partitioning on the Fly on W2K - possible? - Dell System

[The Stigenator]

Guys,
we got a few dell systems (yeah those ones... the ones I cribbed about, the ones with RAMBUS).

Anyway, dell left a 18GB partition for C Drive as the system, and then two other SCSI drives for data.

However what I want to know is if its possible to partition the 18GB drive into a few parts without disturbing the OS and the Dell stuff already installed. I want to make like 3 partitions for the 18GB system drive.

 

[Auric]

If it is FAT32 you can use PartitionMagic from DOS. I don't know about NTFS but I would guess so since the latest PM501 was supposed to be for W2K. Check with PQ for sure. One thing that comes to mind is that Dell might have a hidden restore image on the disk so look into that.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I must have been asleep when I wrote my original message. I could have sworn he mentioned that there were 2 18GB drives and he wanted to repartition the second one. My error!

-SUO

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With Admin privileges, run Computer Management->Disk Management and partition away. Just don't touch the partition with the OS.

-SUO

 

[Auric]

Der, SUOrangeman, I took it to mean the OS (system) is on the partition. I am not familiar with this "built in partitioning" you speak of...