Community Newsletter: Q&A: Adding new partition
Adding new partition
by shaomun - 5/5/06 3:52 PMI have HP Pavillion laptop AMD Athlon 64 3200 , 80GB,512MB running win xp home, which came with only one single partition. I am wondering if there is any shareware packages that will allow me add new partition. I find one partition very cumbersome in organising my files or to have dual booting.
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by John.Wilkinson
- 5/5/06 4:30 PM
In reply to: Adding new partition by shaomun
If you have free, unpartitioned space remaining on your hard drive, you can simply use your Windows CD to do it...it's free, fairly easy, and something you already have. If you want to split one partition into two, Partition Magic and Paragon Partition Manager both have shareware versions. However, since these are trial versions there are severe limitations...Partition Manager, for instance, doesn't allow you to apply the changes until you buy it. Also note that there is some risk inherent in splitting a partition which could result in the loss of data, so be sure you have a recent set of backups, just in case.
Hope this helps,
John
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