Partitioning After Formatting

[ohnnyj]

Hello all:

I formatted my 400GB Seagate drive through the Disk Management MMC in WinXP but created one huge volume. Is there a way to now partition that space? Do I have to buy a third party tool such as Partition Magic? Do I lose performance in using a 3rd party tool to do this or should I have split it up initially when I formatted the drive?

Thanks.

 

[Bozo Galora]

use the install utility on the Cd that came with seagate drive
if you dont have it, download from their site

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm certain you can use the disk management to partition it into various partitions. I did it with my 250GB drive.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: ohnnyj
I formatted my 400GB Seagate drive through the Disk Management MMC in WinXP but created one huge volume. Is there a way to now partition that space? Do I have to buy a third party tool such as Partition Magic? Do I lose performance in using a 3rd party tool to do this or should I have split it up initially when I formatted the drive?

Always partition first, then format. If you've already partitioned into a single 400GB partition, and then formatted as a single volume, then you will need to use a 3rd-party utility if you want to re-partition without re-formatting, and keep your existing data. However, if it's not too much data, you could always back it up, and then re-partition and re-format, and then restore the data.

I don't use dynamic volumes, but I think that you can only extend them (into un-partitioned space), not shrink them.

 

[natto fire]

I haven't notoced any performance hit from using partition magic. I dual-boot between Gentoo and Windoze.

 

[powerMarkymark]

IMHO Acronis Partition Expert is a superior program.

Marc

 

[piroroadkill]

Get Partition Magic.