Partitioning HDD 2

[xlav]

I cloned a HDD on to a 2nd one with only 1 partition on the 2nd drive. Want to put more partitions on the 2nd drive. In win2k Disk Management I see free space but no unallocated space for the 2nd drive. Can't find an option to make the drive into more than 1 partition ie. by reducing present partition size. How can I add more partitions?

 

[vacunita]

You'll need a 3rd party app like Partition Magic to reduce the size of the current partition and create a new one.



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[xlav]

Thanks a lot

 

[wahnula]

xlav,

If the original clone source drive is intact, you could connect the newly-cloned drive as a slave to the clone source drive and create new partitions in Disk Management after first formatting the newly-cloned drive. Once the drive has been partitioned you could then re-clone to one of the partitions. You can use Disk Management to create partitions as long as the drive space is unallocated:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

It's really easy. And free. Best of luck!

wahnula

 

[xlav]

Thanks for the info and the link.

 

[xlav]

Using win2kpro not XP.

 

[xlav]

The original and cloned hdd are SATA. 2nd hdd is in an external enclosure. Don't think I can slave SATA.

 

[xlav]

Formatted hdd to which clone was made. Capacity-189.92GB, Free Space-189.85GB, %Free-99%, Status-Healthy(Active). Rt-clicked and see options to format, delete partition etc, none to create partition. Don't see any unallocatded space.

 

[xlav]

Tried to delete the partition that was formatted but message says the partition is active. Should I delete it?

 

[Freestone]

If this 2nd drive is destined to be placed into a different system and be used as its boot drive, then one of its primary partitions must be set active in order for the drive to be bootable. However, once you delete the 2nd drive's active partition and create a smaller primary partition, Windows will see its own drive as active and not allow you to mark any other drive's partition as active.

Follow vacunita's post and purchase a copy of Partition Magic, or save yourself some money and purchase a copy of Acronis Disk Director. Both allow you to resize partitions, among other functions. Both tools make this type of job easy and quick.

 

[xlav]

Thanks for the help.