"Safely" creating two FAT32 partitions without Partition Magic from one drive

[TegSkywalker]

I currently have a 60 GB hard drive running Win98 and was thinking of splitting up the disk space and creating a seperate, 20 GB partition (with an assigned drive letter like D: for example) where I would store important files, documents, and so on. The first 40 GB partition would remain my main system disk of course.

I dont have Partition Magic and I've heard about apps like GNU Parted and fips, but wanted to know the easy way according to you guys for taking my big drive and creating a new FAT32 partition serving as a secondary hard drive.

This will be good too down the road and if any of you have any tried and true suggestions, let me know

 

[sohcrates]

well, do you care about saving your data or not? can you back it up?

 

[TegSkywalker]

<< well, do you care about saving your data or not? can you back it up? >>



Backup the current stuff on my drive before splitting the disk? Yes that's possible.

 

[sohcrates]

well, the point i was making was that you need a program like partition magic to be able to split up your drive w/out formatting. if you want to simply partition with fdisk, you need to back up EVERYTHING and then partition and format.

is this possible? that would mean that you would have to get EVERYTHING off your 60 gb drive.