I need help on HDD partition.

[Battousai01]

how to make a 20GB HDD partition into two so that 10GB for each drive?

in other words what are the steps or numbers I should press on Fdisk in order to make dual partition? Im about to format my 20GB HDD and make a dual partition

BTW do I have to delete the existing partition in order to make dual partition?

please give me the steps on making a dual partition (10 GB each) if I have an existing partition on my 20GB.

Thnx!

 

[Toxic]

With fdisk, I think you have to delete the partition, then create two 10's. (I haven't used it in a while, not sure if it has a split partition command or not).

You might be better off with something like partition magic. Not only can you resize, split, etc. it doesn't destroy the data on the partition or drive. I've been using it for years without any problems. There are a couple of other progs that do similar, but PM is the only one I've used.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, simple steps....

1) run fdisk

2) remove active partition

3) delete current partition (should just be an option in the top menu, but can't remember off-hand)

4) create new primary partition (set it for 10 GB)

5) create new logical partition (set it for the rest of the hard drive or 10 GB)

6) set active partition to the primary partition

Note: You do not need to set the active partition if you are not planning on booting off this hard drive

 

[mjquilly]

Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
Well, simple steps....

1) run fdisk

2) remove active partition

3) delete current partition (should just be an option in the top menu, but can't remember off-hand)

4) create new primary partition (set it for 10 GB)

5) create new logical partition (set it for the rest of the hard drive or 10 GB)

6) set active partition to the primary partition

Note: You do not need to set the active partition if you are not planning on booting off this hard drive

wouldn't it be

5) create new extended partition (set it for the rest of the hard drive or 10 GB)
5a) create logical drive in the extended partition (set it for the rest of the hard drive or 10 GB)

( and cant you have up to 4 primary partitions? )