Re: Partitioning New Drive?

BobK wrote:
Hello,

I just replaced my boot drive with a larger Seagate ATA 320 Gig 16 MB
cache on a five year old computer. I used Seagate Tools to copy my old
boot drive to my new drive and all went well. I can now boot from the
new drive.

My Computer shows 388 Gigs of Free Space with WinXP Pro SP2 taking up
10 Gigs for a total of 298 Gigs. Disk Manager shows one large
partition in healthy condition.

I would like to partition the drive to have a second partition at the
end. Essentially I want to divide the drive in half so I have a C and
D drive. My old drive has a drive D that has all my programs on it and I want to copy that onto a new partition on the new drive.

However, when I run the partitioning program from Seagate Tools, it
says that there is no free space. Does anyone know what I should do to
get a partition going on the new drive?

Thanks,

Bob


Partion magic will do the job in place. Do it now while you still have the old system in case things go haywire.
Acronis True Image will also image a drive and allow you to move to another drive and at the same time partition, and if it does not, it will at least allow you to use a pre-partitioned drive as is. 150meg/150meg.

I bought a 100 meg drive for my laptop and partitioned it 90/10.


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