Hello everyone

I have mounted and formatted, (using my install CD), my new Hitachi HD, but all 250gbs of it are now the Primary Partition. I now wish to have three or four logical drives as well.

I have fired up 'Computer Management,' in an effort to create the 'logical' drives, but I am unable to do this. When I right-click in the empty space of my new drive there is no information concerning 'partitioning' or 'creating logical drives' whatsoever?

So may I ask, what am I doing wrong please?

regards

grimerz

You should have partitioned the hard disk during the XP install. ie; Chosen to use only (example) 100 GB for XP, leaving the rest alone. (Blank space.) Once the O/S is loaded, then the XP Disk Manager can be used to create additional partitions/drives in the remaining free space.

XP has no provisions for resizing etc a hard disk once the O/S is loaded on it.

You will have to either;

Reinstall and partition during the install, or,

obtain a third party partitioning tool to achieve the task.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...ng+tools&meta=

If you choose to use a third party tool, and have never used one before, read and understand all instructions before you make changes.

Thank you Dan, and how are you in that lovely country?

Dan, I do not want to load Winxp onto my new HD. I already have the Winxp OS on my first 'master,' what I need the new HD for is to replace my third HD which is misbehaving, and it needs to have one expaned and three logicals on it, although I think that maybe my mobo is up the creek.

I am in the process of getting a new one.

regards

grimerz

Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding.

Open Disk Management. Right click on the (250GB) disk/partition and choose DELETE PARTITION. (IF there's NOTHING on it you want saved. If there is, move that data to another hard disk first.)

Then create new partitions outlining the sizes you want.

Once you have your partitions created, format them (individually) with the file system you want on them. (Note: there are size limitations with the FAT32 file system. It'll tell you if the partition is too big for FAT32.)