Can you change the drive partition size after installation

[os400]

I have a user that has recently received a new PC with our "standard load". During install the drive is formatted to its max capacity. The user wants to repartion the drive into two partitions (ex. 30 gb C: and 10 F Is there a way, using installed XP tools to repartition the drive, without a fdisk-format-reinstall. If not, are we looking at something Partition Magic?

TIA

Mike

 

[bcastner]

It is likely this is a FAT32 filestore. The Disk Management snap-in for XP cannot help you in this instance.

Yes, you are looking at a third-party utility.

 

[Houston1981]

I'm sure that i have heard is you move all the data to the begining of the drive (with defrag or else) that fdisk can be used to resize the original partition and create a new one at the end of the disk.

Can someone confirm or deny this as it is just my spotted memory

Houston

 

[bcastner]

Not fdisk.

You can use free third party tools such as qtparted, running under Knoppix or a similar Cd-bootable light version of Linnux.

To download Knoppix:

http://www.knoppix.net/get.php

Discussion of some bearing on your question:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6214&highlight=

 

[criado]

yes, you can use partition magic available at

http://www.partitionmagic.com