Partition blues

[GoCobbers1]

First time builder and uber noob... I was loading windows XP on my just finished new build and saw the opportunity to partition my hard drive. I thought cool! I have always heard of people partitioning off a section for their OS and one for data. So I selected a portion of my 250GB and loaded XP as normal. Well know when I look @ my computer and my C: Drive only has the one partition of X amount. What do I need to do to find the other section or reformat my whole hard drive?

Thanks for all the help

If more information is needed let me know...

 

[Accord99]

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management

From there, create a new partition, and format it.

 

[GoCobbers1]

That seemed to do the trick. Thanks for your help!

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: GoCobbers1
just finished new build and saw the opportunity to partition my hard drive. I thought cool!.

You should have thought " What will happen if I do this?...excitable boy!

 

[GoCobbers1]

For my own knowledge..

Is there a way to delete a partition and add the newly free space to the other partition without reformatting and losing all data?

 

[CallMeJoe]

There are several utilities available for just this purpose. I use Partition Magic.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: GoCobbers1
For my own knowledge..

Is there a way to delete a partition and add the newly free space to the other partition without reformatting and losing all data?

GParted LiveCD is pretty slick too.

 

[GoCobbers1]

Any free software to do this... Partition Magic costs. Ill probably end up buying it unless I can find something free.

 

[Markbnj]

See the post above.

 

[pcgeek11]

Free = GParted LiveCD is pretty slick too.

Just download and use.

Google: Free Partition Tools

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Free+Partition+tools

pcgeek11