[SOLVED] Not Letting Me Partition My Hard Drive

Istanbul_Lfc · 10-05-2007, 11:06 AM

i really want to partition my hard drive but the option isnt even there.

here is what i get.

(just zoom in on the pic)

**Deleted090308** · 10-06-2007, 02:38 AM

Hi,

That's because you only have a C: drive. A program like Partition Magic, Partition logic or GParted would let you shrink the C-drive and then partition the free space.
Before you even try that you should backup the entire C-drive. That's almost 100 GB, so you'll need an extra hard drive.

10-05-2007, 11:06 AM	#1 (permalink)
Istanbul_Lfc Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Lancashire, UK Posts: 160 OS: Windows XP Home SP3, Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 8.04 (Server) My System	[SOLVED] Not Letting Me Partition My Hard Drive i really want to partition my hard drive but the option isnt even there. here is what i get. (just zoom in on the pic)

10-06-2007, 02:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Not Letting Me Partition My Hard Drive Hi, That's because you only have a C: drive. A program like Partition Magic, Partition logic or GParted would let you shrink the C-drive and then partition the free space. Before you even try that you should backup the entire C-drive. That's almost 100 GB, so you'll need an extra hard drive.