hard drive partition

[dhsrcjh]

I have a 80g and a 20g hard drive in my computer. The 20g has 2 partitions equal size. Thw 80g has the operating system installed on a 5g partition, that is the way the computer came. I burned the operation system to cd's with a program that came with the computer. Can I partition the 80g hard drive without losing anything? It takes forever to defrag the 80g drive. I have over 60g of space free on this drive. It is a Compac Presario. I added the second drive because of a lot of records that I had on it. I also have 768m of ram and a 2.6g processor. Running XP home with SP2.

[Murf]

The only way to do what you want is to use a third party partition program. Within XP you can increase a partition into the free space, but cannot create a 2nd one without losing data.

Partition Magic is an excellant program, here is a page on how to do it:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d...et/default.asp

Ranish is also a good one:
http://www.ranish.com/part/

[dhsrcjh]

THANKS, I will give it a look over.