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Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts |
Hello, all.
I have a 2T Seagate HD that I mistakenly partitioned and formatted as single 2T HD. After that, I decided to start over and and to have my active boot partition only be 500g and to then divide the rest of the remaining 1.5T HD space into three other 500 gig partitions. Accordingly, I reformatted the 2T HD (took almost 8 hours!) and then went and created a 500 gig active partition upon which I installed Windows XP Home Edition. That is installed and up and running. Now, I'm at a loss as to how to utilize the remaining 1.5T HD space and to divide it (partition it) into three 500 gig partitions. (My rationale for doing this is to help segregate files to various designated partitions and, in the event of a virus attack on the active C: drive, all I'd have to do is reformat a 500GIG partition area and not the entire 2T HD. I can't seem to find any quick or easy answers or suggestions in the two massive Win XP manuals I have. Instead, each seems to keep pointing to using a product like Partition Magic or System Commander. I have seen a brief reference to FDISK but I have never used it in installing Windows XP, and, at this point in time, I wouldn't know exactly how to utilize FDISK. Any ideas as to how to partitions the current unused 1.5T HD space would be greatly appreciated. I'd hate to have to give up in this quest and, instead, have to reformat the 2T HD (again) and then make the entire HD one huge 2T HD. Thanks for any info in these regards. Best, Mike
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HerbLarry Special user Poof! 731 Posts |
Partition Magic is your friend.
You know why don't act naive.
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts |
Why partition? At the rate data size is ballooning, 500 gigs is small for a partition. Hard drives are so cheap, it's better to just buy additional physical drives.
Besides, with decent anti-virus software, you're unlikely to lose an entire drive to a virus attack (the virus makers are concentrating more on spam-ware these days, anyway.) It's more likely the drive will physically fail... and when it does, you'll lose all four partitions. (By the way, I hope you're backing up your data- either on a backup drive or in cloud storage.)
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abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
I am with EsnRedshirt on this. If I were you, I'd buy an external harddrive (or two) and just back-up everything I have. Check the external drive once every 6 months to make sure it is all working and don't worry about anything else. When I bought my first computer in Taiwan 8 years ago, I was very pleased to get a 250 gig hard drive. No I laugh at myself over it. I have all my magic videos stored on one external drive, and it takes up way more space than 250 gigs. Yes, I have many. L&L should make me a special customer, although many of them were gifts.
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
My first, non Radio Shack computer had a ONE MEG hard drive.
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Bill Hilly Elite user 449 Posts |
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On 2011-02-23 13:50, Pete Biro wrote: You had a harddrive?! Lucky! Mine had a cassette tape. |
Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts |
Hi, Guys.
I have appreciated all of the suggestions to use Partition Magic (or System Commander, etc.) but what I was hoping for is that the Windows XP set-up procedure allows a person to split a single hard drive into two or more partitions...without the necessity of using any 3rd party hardware. What I was hoping to accomplish is that, after the 1st 500 gig partition had been done and that partition formatted (and upon which Windows XP has now been installed), I was hoping that merely by rebooting using the setup disk,I could partition the remaining 1500 gig of unpartitioned unformatted space into 2-3 additional partitions and format the same. (Of course, I would not be installing the Windows XP OS...or any other OS onto any of these additional partitions.) Is such a procedure "doable" using just Windows XP's setup parameters? If so, I'd appreciate a few hints in this regard. (grin) Thanks a lot for any further information in these regards. Best, Mike
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