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Disk partition: From single c:\ to multiple c, d and e

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by shobhits

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Hi,

Need some help with Drive partitioning.
I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop with 40 GB Hard Disk, and while purchasing, the Dell rep did not tell me that it will come with only one single drive (C:\).
Now, I have a single drive on my laptop C:\, it shows a total space of 34 GB (God knows where this 6 GB went) and it is 30 GB full.

I want to create another partition on my Hard drive, so I took Partition Magic 8.0 from PowerQuest. There, in the screenshots, it showed to have a tool called "SPLIT PARTITION". However, that split partition is disabled on my laptop installation. I understand that it may be because I have only one C:\ which is 90% full.

Can anyone please tell me:
1) How should I split my single C:\ into atleast 3 partitions - c:\, D:\ and e:\ without loosing the data.
DO I need to take backup of my data on DVD?
2) Can this be done using Partition Magic?
3) Any other free tool available on the net which can help me do it?

THanks,
Shobhit

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by ontheropes

Read pages 54-56 of the Help\User Guide(.pdf). It looks as if you can only split FAT and FAT32 drives.

by ic-it

You have a 40GB hard drive.

It already has two partitions; roughly 34GB main drive C and a 6GB Recovery partition that is not active and thusly has no drive letter.

You have filled up 30GB of the 36GB available. There is only 6GB left for anything.

You could do a few things;
Buy a larger drive, partition it and Image the current contents to one of the larger drive's partitions.
If you have created the Recovery DVDs, back up your data and test the DVDs. If you don't have these create them ASAP.
Once tested wipe out the data on the Recovery partition, format it as NTFS and give it a drive letter.
This should be doable from Disk Management or with PM 8.0

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