Re: Creating a partition
From: Yves Leclerc (yleclercNOSPAM_at_maysys.com)
Date: 03/01/04
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:37:39 -0500
Disk Management will not re-partition any hard drive, unless there is free,
unallocated disk space.
"George Bashore" <gbashore@bcpl.net> wrote in message
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> Teica
> Before you buy Partion Magic check out XP's Disk Mangement. It' FREE.
> Right click MyComputer
> select Manage
> left click + at storage
> select disk management
> follow directions
> or do with the command prompt as below
>
> To create a partition or logical drive
> You must be logged on as a computer administrator in order to complete
this
> procedure.
> You can create up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions
> and one extended partition.
> Using a command line
>
> Open Command Prompt.
> Type:
> diskpart
>
> At the DISKPART prompt, type:
> list disk
>
> Make note of the disk number of the disk on which you want to create a
> primary or extended partition.
>
> At the DISKPART prompt, type:
> select disk n
>
> Select the disk n where you want to create the primary or extended
> partition.
>
> At the DISKPART prompt, type one of the following:
> create partition primary [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]
>
> or
>
> create partition extended [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]
>
> or
>
> create partition logical [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]
>
> Value Description
> list disk Displays a list of disks and information about them, such as
their
> size, amount of available free space, whether the disk is a basic disk,
and
> whether the disk uses the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table
> (GPT) partition style. The disk marked with an asterisk (*) has focus.
> select disk Selects the specified disk, where n is the disk number, and
> shifts the focus to it.
> create partition primary Creates a primary partition on the current basic
> disk. After you create the partition, the focus automatically shifts to
the
> new partition. The partition does not receive a drive letter; you must use
> the assign command to assign a drive letter to the partition.
> create partition extended Creates an extended partition on the current
> drive. After the partition has been created, the focus automatically
shifts
> to the new partition. Only one extended partition can be created per disk.
> This command fails if you attempt to create an extended partition within
> another extended partition. You must create an extended partition before
you
> can create logical drives.
> create partition logical Creates a logical drive in the extended
partition.
> After the partition has been created, the focus automatically shifts to
the
> new logical drive.
> size=n The size of the partition in megabytes (MB). If no size is given,
the
> partition continues until there is no more unallocated space in the
current
> region. The size is cylinder snapped; the size is rounded to the closest
> cylinder boundary. For example, if you specify a size of 500 MB, the
> partition would be rounded up to 504 MB.
> offset=n The byte offset at which to create the partition. If no offset is
> given, the partition will start at the beginning of the first free space
on
> the disk. For master boot record (MBR) disks, the offset is cylinder
> snapped; the offset is rounded to the closest cylinder boundary. For
> example, if you specify an offset that is 27 MB and the cylinder size is 8
> MB, the offset is rounded to the 24 MB boundary.
> noerr For scripting only. When an error is encountered, specifies that
> DiskPart continues to process commands as if the error did not occur.
> Without the noerr parameter, an error causes DiskPart to exit with an
error
> code.
>
> Notes
>
> You must be logged on as a computer administrator in order to complete
this
> procedure.
> To open command prompt, click Start, point to All Programs, point to
> Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
> You can create up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions
> and one extended partition.
> You cannot create partitions on removable media using DiskPart.
> For more information about DiskPart, click Related Topics.
>
>
> HTH
> George
>
>
> "Teica" <teica@canada.com> wrote in message
> news:4ba401c3ff2c$ada791f0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Currently I have Windows XP installed on my computer. I
> > have a program called "Solid Edge 9.0" and it doesn't run
> > on Windows XP and therefore I have to install Windows
> > 2000.
> >
> > My question is, using Partition Magic 8, can I just
> > install Windows 2000 along with my currently installed XP
> > without deleting any of my current files?
> >
> > Before I purchase the program I would like to make sure I
> > can do this...any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you!
>
>
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