need to split HDD partition on Acer Aspire One netbook having Win XP v2002 sp3 Home Edition
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alexfromt
October 30, 2013 1:20:30 PM
I have Acer Aspire One netbook having (pre-installed by vendor) Win XP Home Edition v2002 SP3 and HDD with two partitions:
1. PQSERVICE 4.88GB FAT32 (hidden partition)
2. ACER (C) 144GB NTFS.
How I can split second partition to two parts?
Everything prepared for this action - I cleaned and removed all non-necessary progs/data (now 77% of disc space is empty) and optimized data with Defragmenter.
But I don't see any possibilities to do this (split disk on two partitions) with Windows Computer Management tool (Storage > Disk Management).
Alex
1. PQSERVICE 4.88GB FAT32 (hidden partition)
2. ACER (C) 144GB NTFS.
How I can split second partition to two parts?
Everything prepared for this action - I cleaned and removed all non-necessary progs/data (now 77% of disc space is empty) and optimized data with Defragmenter.
But I don't see any possibilities to do this (split disk on two partitions) with Windows Computer Management tool (Storage > Disk Management).
Alex
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There are many programs to partition your drive without affecting the data.
http://www.top5freeware.com/top-5-free-disk-partition-s...
http://www.top5freeware.com/top-5-free-disk-partition-s...
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alexfromt
October 30, 2013 1:39:26 PM
Best solution
My apologies, I didn't read your second post very well. I am quite sure that Win XP does not have a partitioning feature, as I remember ( 6 years ago?!) asking my computer genius friend what to do and was given a copy of Partition Magic for my Win XP machine.
If you do have issues ( you probably won't ) you could still (!!):
If it doesn't want to work, you could always take it out and install it in an external enclosure and do the partitioning on someone elses larger Win 7 or 8 desktop. It won't make a difference as long as you make sure to use the same file format, Fat 32 or NTSF for your system. The software will allow you to use a different format than the native format from the main system compared to the disc you are partitioning. NTSF- Native, and fat32 for Win XP. Double check which format you have and don't change it even though you could!
If you do have issues ( you probably won't ) you could still (!!):
If it doesn't want to work, you could always take it out and install it in an external enclosure and do the partitioning on someone elses larger Win 7 or 8 desktop. It won't make a difference as long as you make sure to use the same file format, Fat 32 or NTSF for your system. The software will allow you to use a different format than the native format from the main system compared to the disc you are partitioning. NTSF- Native, and fat32 for Win XP. Double check which format you have and don't change it even though you could!
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alexfromt
October 30, 2013 3:50:07 PM
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