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How do I make multiple partitions?

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salz

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Question (for those who don't care why I want to do this)

How do I make multiple partitions in Windows XP Pro on one hard drive?

Reason (for those who feel like reading more)

I'm using Norton Ghost to backup up my system without anything but the essentials. This will allow me to make reformatting my hard drive much faster (I won't be reformatting often, but every few months, as matintenance). The problem is that I am only able to clone one hard drive to another, and Norton Ghost wants to overwrite any data on the secondary hard drive whenever I want to clone the primary hard drive. I want to create a second partition on the secondary hard drive that's big enough to hold a clone that has all of the essentials and nothing extra, which I will use after each time I reformat. I want to make two partitions, so I can still clone my entire hard drive if necessary, but have the second clone always available for after I reformat. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
 
Is there currently any data on the secondary drive? Because, in order to do either of the following, you will lose all the data on the drive.

One way to do what you want is to use a Windows98 bootdisk to run FDISK. You use FDISK to create the FAT32 partitions on the secondary drive.

You can get a Windows98 BD here

Another method is to use the Computer Management tool in WinXP. Its under Administrative Tools (Go under Start Menu -> Settings -> Taskbar -> Advanced -> Check 'Display Administrative Tools'). Go under Storage -> Disk Management to change/create partitions.

You basically use either method to create an extended drive (non-bootable) partition. From this overall alotment, you create individual partitions that become individual drives with different drive letters.

Be warned though....any data on the secondary drive will be lost when you change/create partitions.

Hope this helps...
 
You can use a utility like Partition Magic to resize partitions and make new ones with no data loss. Partition Commander is another one. I have used these for years without problems. They are not free, though.
 
Partition magic is great.
I used it to create a C very small parition for Windows and installed programs, which is whan I scandisk when the PC crashes. It's also good to have a small parition for virus checking (the less stuff to check, the faster). And I have a big partition for downloaded files, movies, etc.

Just search google for "free parition resize" or something... Partition magic ain't free 🙁
 
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