partitioning a new drive in xp pro

[bigcfromcinci]

Hello & g'morning
Is there a way i can partition my 160 gig hd in (windows)xp pro painlessley?I'd like 2 partitions.One for mp3's,another for movies.There will be NO OS on this drive.

thanks!

[eGoCeNTRoNiX]

Is Awesome for that! It supposedly can be done in XPro by going to my computer, clicking on mangae (me thinks) then go to disk managment then chose the drive and go from there. Like I said, I never got the option to create a partition. Partition magic on the other hand partitioned my 80GB drive (boot drive) to 4 partitions flawlessly. 8GB boot partition, and then 3 larger partitions for misc. things. Whichever way you choose to go.. GL! eGo

[Busby]

Very easily done. Right click on My Computer and choose Manage then go to Disk Management. At the bottom part of the right side of the screen it shows all the drives and the partitions. With a new drive it will probably show unallocated space or unpartitioned space. Right click on it and select create Extended. Choose the full size for this part. After is done right click on the Free Space area and choose Create Logical Drive. Follow the wizard selecting the size and then you are done. I would suggest not formatting the drive with the wizard but through right clicking the drive in My Computer.

[bigcfromcinci]

thanks guys!
I will experiment when I get home tonight

[Magexx9]

Just make em primary unless you have more than 4 partitions on the drive.

[FlyingPenguin]

You can't re-partition a drive from within Windows XP - only partition a new drive or delete the existing partitions and repartition. You do this from the Disk Manager as explained above.

If you need to repartition WITHOUT losing data on the existing partition(s) then you need a partitioning utility like Partition Magic.

[bigcfromcinci]

You can't re-partition a drive from within Windows XP

I'm just wanting to partition a new drive in half..basically for storage purposes
There will be NO operating system on it.I can partition this in half right?
I have partition magic..was just curious if it could be done in windose under XP.

Thanks for all the help

[FlyingPenguin]

Yes, if it's a new drive then you can partition it anyway you want using WinXP's Disk Manager.

[VooDoo]

on that topic what is better (and why) win xp pro

fat32
or
ntfs

me

[bigcfromcinci]

ntfs is more secure i believe.

on that topic what is better fat32
or
ntfs
(and why) win xp pro

Everything went smoothly!!It didn't give me an option as far as fat32 or NTSF.It formatted it as ntfs.Even though my C drive is fat32...Anyhow it's no big deal to me.


Thanks again

[FlyingPenguin]

Perfromance wise NTFS may be ever so slightly slower, but nothing you'd notice (I do recommend you disable indexing or you will suffer a performance hit in NTFS. Info here: http://tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2226 then disable the indexing service).

I would recommend NTFS over FAT32, however, because FAT32 has a 4Gb file size limit. You'll probably only run into a file size limit if you work with video files though.

Only good reason to format a drive as FAT32 anymore is if you need to be able to access it from Win98 or DOS.

The reason you were never asked what format to us is because the partition was bigger than 32Gb. WinXP (and 2K) will not allow you to format in FAT32 any partition that is larger than 32Mb. This is an artificial limit however - you can format a larger FAT32 partition from a DOS boot, Win98 or using Partition Magic.

[bigcfromcinci]

Thanks for the info FP!

Actually the drive seems really fast compared to the other drives...Could be because their FULL

I'll check this out when I get home tonight!

I do recommend you disable indexing or you will suffer a performance hit in NTFS. Info here: http://tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2226 then disable the indexing service).

Thanks again