partioning your free space (W2K)

[surveyor]

Hi Everyone nice to see you.
And I'd like to introduce myself, by asking a question. Hope you don't mind. So here goes, Can I simply create a partition of my free space about 50gb while in windows,.. have 2000pro and any help would be appreciated. Always think pos.
Its FAT32 system and i don't know if fdisk will or where will start from, i mean if it erases everything you know. Just need some help, Thanks and nice to be here.

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by surveyor on 06/19/06 16:17.</FONT></P>

[BertImmenschuh]

Win2000 [and WinXP] can't create and format FAT32 partitions over 32GB.

In your case you really don't have free space to create a partition in, it most likely is all allocated to the partition. You will need third-party software such as Partition Commander from www.v-com.com to reduce the size of the C: partition which will then give you the unallocated space to create the new partition in.

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[surveyor]

Partition Commander cost 99.99 is that the only choice i have. I know my free space is allocated by 2000 but can't i boot up in dos and create a partition. And thanks for your reply.

[surveyor]

here is something else i found
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200406/ai_ziff126224

[BertImmenschuh]

There may be free partitioning programs on the 'net but I haven't seen one.

And you don't need DOS to use Partition Commander, installing it should make bootable diskette/s or CD for performing the partitioning if it won't do it directly from the CD.

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