Re: XP Home: How to format HD?

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From: Norm (nospam_at_hellothere.com)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:06:06 GMT

If your disk 1 is a single 40 gig NTFS partition why not just leave it
alone. Without some 3rd party partitioning tools you cannot change the size
of the C partition. You can delete the small partitions and create what you
want on disk 2 in XP by going into Disk Management.

"Patrick Riley" <p_riley@pipeline.com> wrote in message
news:e478b09p1l4s09jg95m8g493o7fs00l4f9@4ax.com...
> My machine:
>
> Disk 1: 40 gig
>
> C: NTFS 40 gig Operating system, files etc about 5 gig, the rest
> unused
>
> D: CDROM Drive
>
> Disk 2: 40 gig
>
> E: Fat16 about 2 gig
>
> F: Fat 16 about 2 gig
>
> G: Fat 16 about 2 gig
>
> H: Fat 16 about 2 gig
>
> I: NTFS about 32 gig
>
> All of disk 2 came from a prior machine and has remnants of DOS 5.2,
> Win 3.1, Win NT, and Win 2K. In fact loading the latter (and its
> collapse) was the final straw that made me go out and buy a new
> machine with XP on it. Unfortunately the guy formatted the entirety of
> Disk 1 as C:. I need to have at least a couple of gig (file type
> indifferent) as D:
>
> I want to end up with:
>
> Disk 1: 40 gig
>
> C: NTFS 35 gig -- Operating system, files etc. everything it has at
> present
>
> D: any file system 5 gig
>
> E: CDROM
>
> Disk 2: 40 gig NTFS
>
> F: 40 gig NTFS formatted and virginal.
>
> How do I go about this without disturbing the sensitivities of XP? I
> most certainly don't want to re-load the OS. I can't even find a Help
> entry for Format nor F-Disk but I heard rumors (voices <g>) that in
> these more modern OS's the functions of F-disk could be done "on the
> fly".
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Patrick Riley
>

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