Help on Partitions and Formating

CSn00bi3 · Post by **CSn00bi3** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 6:32 pm

My computer won't ley me create a new partition or format my C drive when I look at the disk management program. It says I hae no free or unpartitioned space left.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 6:53 pm

wait...
are you doing this to your primary drive that contains the OS?

CSn00bi3 · Post by **CSn00bi3** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 7:16 pm

Yes
I also still have 35 gigs of unused space left on that drive.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 7:18 pm

do you already have a C: and a D: partition?

in other words, does your HD already have more then one partition?

m4a2t0t · Post by **m4a2t0t** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 8:29 pm

sounds like the drive isnt partitioned, you will need to use a program like partition magic

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 10:49 pm

Originally posted by CSn00bi3
Yes
I also still have 35 gigs of unused space left on that drive.

35 Gigs of formated or unformatted space? I'm guessing formated since you got a message saying you had no free unpartitioned space. If you want another partition I think you have to reduce the size of your D: partition if you can to free up space. And then create another logical drive. I have only ever used fdisk so I am not sure how you would do that with the disk manager.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 11:01 pm

i'm guessing here...

When you made that D: drive, you might hvae made it wrong. If you made it with fdisk, you can only make ONE primary and ONE extending partitions. Even if you used all the space... too bad!

third party program might fix it, but it depends how you made those parititons up. might depend too if they're nfts and fat32.