Hi Al, The help system for Disk Management says to click on a portion of the graphic that represents the drive. I was able to do this but mostly it was luck. Even if set to the graphical view, routing Jaws to things was a dubious process. There is an alternative however. You may want to check out Diskpart. You can run diskpart from the commandline and you would type select disk 1 create partition primary to add a partition to that disk. Select chooses a disk to work on, detail disk gives you info on the selected disk. Many other useful commands are available.
Jon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan & Terrie Robbins Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:05 AM To: Blind-Computing Subject: [Blind-Computing] Creating Partitions with JAWS I have been fooling around this morning with a spare 160 GB hard drive that I want to create 2 partitions on, one of which will hold an image I want to put on it with the Image for Windows program. In the past my wife has provided some sighted assistance with this task but I would like to learn to do the process with JAWS. I have successfully removed the old partitions with the computer management option. I proceeded down the tree of options and landed on disc management. Depending on how you set the view you can see either drive volumes (on partitioned drives) or just view drives. When displaying the volumes, I was able to go to the action menu, all tasks sub menu and then delete old partitions I wanted to get rid of. However, I do not see any options for creating partitions and selecting what size one would want them. What steps do I need to do to accomplish this? thanks Al For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
