HOW TO PARTITION NEWLY BOUGHT LAPTOP...BUT

[reyzen]

Hi.

1. Just bought a new Toshiba A15-S129 laptop (40GB hd space). I actually know how to partition a drive by using fdisk. However, since I did this years ago, I am afraid I might mess up the bundled software in the laptop. Is there a way to partition and still be able to install Toshiba's bundled software? Note: the laptop is still in the box. I have not even turned it on yet.

2. I do not see anything on Partition Magic 8 that tells me how to split a single partition. It seems that Partition Magic only helps if you already have existing partitions. Is my assumtion correct?

Thanks!

 

[comtec17]

If you are planning to re-install the OS for your own personal prefs, the bundled software will install wherever you choose it to install.

 

[bcastner]

You need to use Partition Magic to first shrink the existing partition.

Once this process is completed you will have the free space to assign to a second partition.

 

[reyzen]

Thanks to your speedy replies.

My question regarding Partition Magic is, if I have a single original partition which obvisuoly is just c:\, how do I actually make use of Partition Magic to shrink it to create space for a new partition? I could not find the command at all --- maybe I'm blind. Would appreciate a reply on this one.

Thanks!

 

[jferrante]

The fourth item down on the left side of the partition magic 8 main windows is "resize a partition". Alternately you can right click the drive you wish to re-size and select Move / Resize from the drop down.

 

[reyzen]

Thanks! I will definitely try that one. I'll update you guys on my progress. Thanks once more to all of you! Happy New Year!

 

[jungleworld]

Hi, guys, I have a similar question as reyzen's, and I tried what you guys have suggested. But my laptop ended up keeping rebooting. Nothing was actually changed.

 

[micker377]

In what way did it "keep on rebooting"? Partition Magic often has to go back to "DOS" to do it's work. Is this what happened, or did it go into a "loop" and just continually reboot?

 

[jungleworld]

Hi, miceker377, my laptop reboots when I applied the change made by Partition Magic. But after the restart, nothing different happened.

 

[reyzen]

Hi Jungleword. My laptop now works with my XP and my office's XP. You need to make sure that bootmagic is configured properly to 'see' two systems. If it does not, it goes tp the first available system.