Partioning drives in xp?

[FlamingEightBall]

Is there any program that will partion drives in xp or wil windows do it?

 

[greeneagle79]

Administrative Tools would do all the tasks.

 

[Dan]

There is also PowerQuest's Partition Magic 7.0.

 

[TheWart]

second vote for PMagic

 

[hill1111]

How do I repartition my entire drive, I am not worried about losing data (I want a completely fresh drive). With windows xp you cannot repartition your boot or system partition using Administrative tools. Any ideas?

 

[rbV5]

<< How do I repartition my entire drive, >>



Can't you just use the XP CD and boot>partition> and install?

 

[hill1111]

No, that's what I did initially, but now that xp is installed when I re-install it I don't have the option to re-partition. Thanks though.

 

[hill1111]

correction: I have the option to re-partition but not to re-partition the boot partition (that has the xp files on it).

 

[rbV5]

But, can't you delete all the existing partitions, then recreate new partitions, then install?

 

[MetroRider]

one thing that would help you is to use a win98 boot disk, fdisk and format your partitions, and reinstall winXP and then you should definitely have the option of starting from scratch there.

hope that helps...

good luck

 

[TheWart]

if u want the absolute (i think) cleanest install, write zeroes to the drives, and if u have a raid card or something wipe the partition tables, then in xp when u install off the bootable cd it tells u that ure drive is "raw and unpartitioned". that worked for me.