partitioning hard drives

[Adam Knows]

ok i just got all this stuff to upgrade this computer.

the new hardrive is a SATA drive so for some reason i couldn't get utilities to work on it to do things like partition. i just installed a fresh copy of vista on it. now i want to partition it out

is there any way i can or do i need to install windows again? it never gave me the option to partition during install. and i don't see the option under computer management.

 

[ljinsane]

This should help you:
Partition magic
http://rapidshare.com/files/10220516/Partition.Magic.8.0_with_serial_number.zip

http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80


Although generally you want to partition your drive BEFORE installing any OS

 

[tp2001]

ok i just got all this stuff to upgrade this computer.

the new hardrive is a SATA drive so for some reason i couldn't get utilities to work on it to do things like partition. i just installed a fresh copy of vista on it. now i want to partition it out

is there any way i can or do i need to install windows again? it never gave me the option to partition during install. and i don't see the option under computer management.

I wish the best of luck to you on your "quest" to conquer vista...But since you are partitioning the drive, might as well try to put Linux or Mac OS X on it

 

[Adam Knows]

I wish the best of luck to you on your "quest" to conquer vista...But since you are partitioning the drive, might as well try to put Linux or Mac OS X on it

i wouldn't mind doing that. someone want to drop that info on how to....i have 2 500gigs, 1 160gig and 1 120 gig in there.


i found a way to shrink the drive and then make partition but it won't let me shrink the drive beyond 274gigs.....