partitioning a 320 Gig HD???

[Cabt]

hi all. I'm a Newbie doing a new build after my old Dell uh...took a lightning strike. In any event. I built my new rig and used my old Dell XP install disk and the first thing it asked me to do was partition the HS at 130 or 180 Gig can't recall. In any event, as I have not been able to get back to it since the install completed was this a mistake to do and will windows actually see the full drive size. If not what do I need to do to fix this. Many thanks!!

-Clayton

 

[Can Not]

I'd recomend Partition Magic, but I'm not sure if that's available anymore...

 

[Cabt]

To do what? Do we still partition drives?

 

[evongugg]

Yes, if you are not seeing the full size of the disk you can expand the partition with Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director or GParted.

 

[kwanasek]

Go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management.

From there you can partition, activate partition, change drive letters, and format.

 

[tipoo]

use Acronis Trueimage

 

[Cabt]

What is that? And do I have to uninstall XP to do this or can I fix this from XP? Thanks!

 

[kwanasek]

Dude, did you not see my last post?
If you don't know how to get to Control Panel, take your PC into the local computer shop.

 

[Cabt]

Dude, I was responding to Tipoo

 

[tipoo]

What is that? And do I have to uninstall XP to do this or can I fix this from XP? Thanks!

you dont have to uninstall XP, you can use the Acronis Trueimage software to set your partitions. just get the free 15 day trial.

 

[Cabt]

Many thanks.

 

[Cabt]

Tippo help! Installed Acronis and not knowing what I was doing I set teh safe zone to like 95% of my harddrive and now I can't get the damn software off my computer. I even tried to restore to two days ago and it is still there. When I go into system in xp it shows acronis as my hard drive instead of the drive. Ahhhhh!

 

[kwanasek]

Format c:[enter]

 

[Cabt]

Not an option

 

[Kari]

ok, insert the xp disc, boot, create new partition and reinstall xp, and then do like kwanasek told you.
lol i was a bit too late

 

[Cabt]

That blows.

 

[tipoo]

your not supposed to play around with the safe zones

can you change it again?

 

[Cabt]

Update: Uninstalled Acronis and while uninstalling it asks how you want to reassign the hardrive parameters (either back to the way it was prior to installation or any other combonation). So I was able to repartition back to one full drive.

Thanks to all.