Re: 2 Questions - Creating a partition and transferring files

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From: Mark Wilcutts (markw@vehicle.ME.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 13:16:21 PST

Win2k Disk Management does not allow resizing or moving of partitions - if
your partition C: is taking up the whole hard drive you won't be able to
create any new partitions. You'll need a tool like Partition Magic to
resize/move partitions.

So you've finally come over to the dark side, eh?

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Eric Fong wrote:

> I've just received a new Dell Optiplex GX240 1.7 Gig running Win2K.
> I'd like to partition the drive but after turning it on and opening
> Disk Management I can't right-click on the disk to select Create
> Partition. Nor can I right-click free space in an extended partition
> and select Create Logical Drive. Am I doing something wrong, or am I
> missing a step, or is it that even though the single C: drive is the
> only one there and contains the system, I can't do it at all? And

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