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Adding a primary partition to a hard drive on a laptop

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by ackerberg, 2006/10/05.

  1. 2006/10/05
    ackerberg

    ackerberg Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have a laptop where the whole C drive is one partition. It is running WIN XP Pro SP1. Can I create a partition on the drive without a 3rd party software? All of the space on this drive is allocated so there is no free space or unallocated space. I
     
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  2. 2006/10/05
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Straight answer is no - you will need third party software.
    High time to upgrade to SP 2 - support for SP 1 ends on the 10th Oct.
     
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  4. 2006/10/06
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    If you start over with a clean install, the XP install routine will let you create partitions.
     
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