More questions on Hard Drive

Hi All: Is there a way in XP Home to create a partition on an existing partition without formatting? Or must you have a 3rd party app?

 

Hi martinr121,

Nope. Have to remove partition and then make two or more in the same space. Believe partition magic can do what you wish, but have never tried it.

 

Thanks PeteC, I've had it sitting around but hesitated to try it on the computers that come thru here. Now I'm going to.

 

I can attest to the ability of Partition Magic to do just about anything to a drive you would want to do. I've never known it to mess up. I have version 8, installed on this machine. I was trying to figure out how to partition a drive on another machine, belongs to a friend. He does not have Partition Magic, and I don't particularly want to install my copy on his machine.

So, at least you answered my question, even though I don't like the answer.

Thanks,

Martin

P.S. Anybody know of any FREE software out there that would do this?

 

Martin:
Can't you make two floppies from Partition magic (one boot, one program) and run them on his machine from the floppy drive without ever having to actually install Partition Magic? I'm still using V7.1 but would be surprised if this has changed.

 

New idea to me. I'd like to try that tomorrow, but have no idea how, easy to make a boot floppy, but program??
Can you help me here?

Martin

 

Run Partiton Magic and make the utility disks - the program does all the hard work. You just have to read and click. It will make both disks for you. If you need more help that would mean I'd have to install the program on here and do the reading myself - all I run any more are the two utility disks I made several machines ago when I still had it installed on a box.

 

Rockster, you sure make it sound easy, I'll give it a whirl. Thanks a lot.

Martin

 

Hi All: Well, Rockster sure gave me the straight scoop. Created two floppies from Partition Magic 8 on my machine, ran them on the other machine, set up a partition there, that was the easy part.

When all done and rebooted, the partiton "E" was there, I created some folders on it, then tried to copy files there for backing up some of his pictures and music.

After using "folder tasks" copy command, the window to select the location to copy to opened. The new E drive appeared in the window with a plus sign, but, the + sign refused to open the sub folders.

I was baffeled by this and went to the drive, the folders opened, no problem, even though they were still empty.

Used computer management, properties, tools, error checking, auto fix errors, check on reboot, both drives.

On reboot, error checking found 6 0r 7 errors on "C" and fixed them. Can't tell you what, went by too fast for me to hit the pause key. Found no errors on "E ".

Solved the problem, so apparently Partition Magic put incorrect info on "C "
Resloved now, copy works like a charm. Installed Karen's Replicator and will set it up so that he can backup those files with a click or auto.

Thanks for all your help.

Martin