Resizing Partition

[DWk]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@30 January 2004 - 21:41
Its a brand new drive...havnt done nothing but installed windows...should I just completley reformatt it and get it blank again, THEN put it into 2 partitions"?

Get this right - you partition BEFORE you format. You can't partition after formatting.

[bigdawgfoxx]

I was using a HDD for a year and it was still running windows and everything, and I still was able to make a separate partition...Should I just completley erase the drive and make it blank and then use my 80GB HDD to partition the 160GB HDD, then install windows onto the 160GB HDD? or not?

[bigdawgfoxx]

^^^^will that work?

[bigdawgfoxx]

before I go to bed DWK! lolol

[fkdup74]

blah!
use acronis partition expert
its on emule

no offense rob, but acronis was a hell of a lot easier, and no errors B)

downsized my drive and created new partitions in just a few minutes

no loss of data either, no reinstalls of anything B)

[bigdawgfoxx]

I never can get emule to work...

I think there might be something wrong with my drive or something...ive partitioned many times with partition magic 8 with no probs...

can i reformatt the new drive and make it blank, then partition, then install windows?

[bigdawgfoxx]

Ugh....now when I was in partition manager and right clicked on the drive and clicked properties I got the Error 1611 message like 5 times...wtf

[bigdawgfoxx]

nvm...just reformatted the whole drive and put it into 2 partitions before i installed windows...everythings good now...thanks for yalls help though!