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If it has been newly formatted and you XP has been installed I can only
assume that XP has created a partition to include all the available drive
space. In this instance the disk management console in control panel
administrative tools will be of no use to you. You will only be able to use
this option if you have available 'free space'
You can check this by going to Control panel and clicking administrative
tools icon. In admin tools window click computer management icon. When the
computer management window opens look at the menu on the left of the window
and click the disk management option. Another window will open showing the
hard drive/partition details. You will also see, at the bottom of the
window, a coloured graph with the words XP Home (or professional depending
upon which version you have) the size of the partition followed by healthy
(system) or (boot). If you have a 80GB hard drive, for example and xp has
allocated all the space to one partition the graph will show the drive as
being 80GB or whatever the size of your drive. If, on the other hand, you
see the word 'free space' then you can right click on the free space and
from the drop down menu select new partition. A wizard will then guide you
through the creation of a new partition.
If you don't have any free space you will need third party software such as
partition magic to reduce the current xp partition and then allow you to
create a new partition.
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John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.freelanceit/index.htm
"J" <J@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A3A57E67-7741-4A3C-825A-D5E6FCF54227@microsoft.com...
>I have a newly formatted HDD that has XP Pro on it.
> How can I create a partition that I can save all my documents to?
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