add partition to hard drive

Hello
I need a little advice. I have a 40 gig hard drive that I installed windows 2000 on. Apparently when I did the installation I did not realize that I only partitioned 4 gig of the drive. I now have 36 gig unallocated.
What is the best way to do this. I have a very important database on the 4 gig partition.
I saw somewhere that fdisk was not good for this for some reason I cannot remember.
I really want to add a second partion to the unallocated disk space and have it be d:\ drive.
Help please

 

Use Disk Management that is a part of your 2K setup. Good utility and will allow you to set up the remainder of the drive just like you want it with no danger to the current OS partition.

Right-click on My Computer, left-click on Manage and then on Disk Management. Your Help files have good detail on using the disk management I think.

 

If you want to expand your 4gb partition, you can use a 3rd party software like partition magic. If not, use your Disk Management that's shipped with the OS. Make it an extended partition and ntfs if you want better security on it.