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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
"aa" wrote in message ... Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ? Yes, via the Disk Manager (diskmgmt.msc). However, the tool is restricted to creating, deleting or formatting partitions. It cannot repartition a disk non-destructively like third-party partition managers. |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
Yes, it has a built-in Disk Management tool, to start it enter
diskmgmt.msc in the Start menu Run box. The Disk Management tool has certain limits or drawbacks, it cannot resize existing partitions without first removing them. John aa wrote: Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ? |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
"aa" wrote in message ... on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:05:01 +0300 Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ? Yes it does. Under Explorer My Computer (right click) Manage Disk Management -- Bill Windows7 Ultimate (build 7100) Gateway MX6124 - 2G RAM |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:05:01 +0300, "aa" wrote:
Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ? Yes. And others have told you how. But when you say "to partition HD," you probably mean that you want to change the existing partition structure non-destructively. If that's what you want, you can *not* do that without using a third-party program. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
Thank you, everybody, yet I am puzzled
If Disk Manager cannot repartition a disk non-destructively, then what is use of it? It cannot be used before XP is installed, but using it after installing XP means reducing the only existing partition, i.e. repartition - you mean it will destoy XP installation ? |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ? Each NT-based version of Windows has included a utility to partition hard disks. That probably isn't what you meant to ask. The functions available in Disk Management utility in Windows is rather limited. If you wanted to rearrange, resize, change type, or other partition functions, you'll need a 3rd party utility. So what was your real question? |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
One of the partitioning options at installation time is a size or
allocation of the disk. If XP is installed to a partial use of the total hard drive size - then post install Disk Management can be used to partition the remainder of the drive. "aa" wrote in message ... Thank you, everybody, yet I am puzzled If Disk Manager cannot repartition a disk non-destructively, then what is use of it? It cannot be used before XP is installed, but using it after installing XP means reducing the only existing partition, i.e. repartition - you mean it will destoy XP installation ? |
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aa wrote:
Thank you, everybody, yet I am puzzled If Disk Manager cannot repartition a disk non-destructively, then what is use of it? It cannot be used before XP is installed, but using it after installing XP means reducing the only existing partition, i.e. repartition - you mean it will destoy XP installation ? Maybe partion ANOTHER disk? |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
aa wrote:
Thank you, everybody, yet I am puzzled If Disk Manager cannot repartition a disk non-destructively, then what is use of it? Depends on the situation. If you have more than one hard drive in your PC, Disk Management can be useful in partitioning any drive that doesn't have your OS on it. If you wound up with a certain amount of unallocated space after you installed Windows XP, you can use Disk Management to create partitions from the unallocated space. Then again, once the partitions were created, they would remain that size (unless you deleted them or used a third-party program). But if you have only one hard drive and if that drive has only one partition and no unallocated space, then Disk Management is useless. Or if you have two or more partitions on that hard drive and you need to resize them (for instance, you would like your partition that has XP on it to be larger), again it is useless. Fortunately, there are third-party programs that will allow you to do this. It cannot be used before XP is installed, but using it after installing XP means reducing the only existing partition, i.e. repartition - you mean it will destoy XP installation ? I've never tried this, and I sure hope it wouldn't even let you do it! But, hypothetically, if it did allow you to delete the partition (remember that it doesn't even have the capacity to resize) that has XP on it, then yes, XP would be destroyed! Here is one scenario where XP's Disk Management would work: You have one hard drive that has two partitions and a certain amount of unallocated space. The first partition is 40GB and contains XP and all the programs. The second is 100GB and contains data only (Word documents, MP3s, etc.). And there is 360GB of unallocated space on the hard drive. You could feasibly copy *all* the data from the data partition to an external hard drive and then delete the data partition and finally create one large partition from the unallocated space (now 460GB) so that you could copy all the data to this new partition from the external hard drive. The above scenario is the equvialent of resizing the data partition, but in a very roundabout way! It would be faster to use a third-party disk partitioning program, but it's still possible to use Disk Management. |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
Sorry to jump in like this but I have been trying to start a new thread and
when I click on new and question it doesnt do anything. Iam new to this and have been trying to ask questions but the window will not open for me so I can ask a question. I apologize for jumping in on this post but this is the only way I could ask how to ask questions if the question link doesnt work. Please help -- george154302 "VanguardLH" wrote: aa wrote: Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ? Each NT-based version of Windows has included a utility to partition hard disks. That probably isn't what you meant to ask. The functions available in Disk Management utility in Windows is rather limited. If you wanted to rearrange, resize, change type, or other partition functions, you'll need a 3rd party utility. So what was your real question? . |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
george154302 wrote on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:44:01 -0700:
Sorry to jump in like this but I have been trying to start a new thread and when I click on new and question it doesnt do anything. Iam new to this and have been trying to ask questions but the window will not open for me so I can ask a question. I apologize for jumping in on this post but this is the only way I could ask how to ask questions if the question link doesnt work. Please help What's your question George? -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03) |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
george154302 wrote:
Sorry to jump in like this but I have been trying to start a new thread and when I click on new and question it doesnt do anything. Iam new to this and have been trying to ask questions but the window will not open for me so I can ask a question. I apologize for jumping in on this post but this is the only way I could ask how to ask questions if the question link doesnt work. Please help You might want to abandon the webnews-for-dummies interface which Microsoft uses to pretend they have forums but is actually a gateway to Usenet (newsgroups). Instead use an NNTP (network news transfer protocol) client, like Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, Xnews, Xananews, Dialog, or another with more robust features and designed specifically for newsgroups. Even Microsoft has their help article on how to access their newsgroups using a real newsreader: http://www.microsoft.com/communities.../nntpnews.mspx |
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Does XP has its own built in facilities to partition HD ?
Your POP-UP blocker is interfering, hold down the CTRL key while you
click "new". george154302 wrote: Sorry to jump in like this but I have been trying to start a new thread and when I click on new and question it doesnt do anything. Iam new to this and have been trying to ask questions but the window will not open for me so I can ask a question. I apologize for jumping in on this post but this is the only way I could ask how to ask questions if the question link doesnt work. Please help |
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