I have just acquired a laptop with XP Home pre-installed on a 20 GB hard drive. Never having used XP, I'm trying to familiarise myself with it -- especially the disk management facilities.
Since I hate having one large partition, I wish to partition the hard drive into, say, four partitions of 5GB, but am not sure how best to go about this. Working with other OSes I have always previously partitioned and formatted the drives with fdisk prior to installing the OS myself -- but I don't know what will happen with XP, especially if OEM. There are some CDs with the package, but I'm not sure how best to use these, or if there will be problems with the infamous XP registration which I have heard so much about. Is there any way of repartitioning the HD without reformatting and reinstalling from scratch (apart from using a 3rd party app such as Partition Magic, which I don't have). Thanks for your help! Virginia Da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
