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You're so awesome!
I don't know when I'm doing it yet, but I am going to try it.

It will be at least a few days. Lots going on here, that takes priority right now...

But when I do it, I think I open DiskPart, and enter:

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create partition primary [size=n] [offset=n] [ID={byte|EFI}] [noerr]

But I'll know better after I "study" some more
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I guess the n that is size would be 24,000,000,000 b, and that n for the offset I guess I'll make 26,000,000,000 b, that way I still leave room for more stuff on C: and a little extra if I want another partition...


Code:
Then, I guess I do:
Syntax
assign [{letter=f|mount=Path}] [noerr]

Parameters

mount=Path
The mount point path you want to assign to the volume.
I don't have a clue what this means, though... Think  Confused
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I don't know what you are doing or using, but it sounds very dangerous.  Why don't you use a program like PartitionExpert???

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Nightrider wrote:
Why don't you use a program like PartitionExpert???


Because I don't have that...

The built-in prog. is DiskPart , and the help file says to do what I typed up there...I guess I won't do it that way, then...

I used to know how to do this, I actually went to school for it... But I have forgotten a LOT.  I feel like I learn something, and then something I knew falls out of my brain to make room for the next thing... tard
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TDQ, what OS are you running? From the screenshot, it might be Win XP. If so, I think it has a partitioning program, that's graphical and relatively easy to use. You don't have to type in commands like your example; you type in numbers for partition sizes as you choose the partitions. If I recall, XP's partitioning utility claims it'll partition without losing data. Does your DiskPart wipe the hard drive, or partition without losing data?
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This may be what you're talking about bigR!


Yes, i have XP
Everything I have is here as far as hardware and power.

But I still need to read a lot about all this stuff, and being Halloween and all, I am getting off the 'puter until later tonight. We all have to be ready to Trick or Treat in half forty five minutes or so!

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Yes, TDQ, that's what I was talking about. The XP partitioning utility is relatively straightforward, no cryptic commands to type in a command window. You can see the sizes of all your partitions, and graphically resize them.

I find the pictures easier to understand than typed-in numbers or a list of partition sizes. Must be old age.... used to use fdisk, way back in the day of DOS, no pretty pics or diagrams back then.
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bigR wrote:
fdisk, way back in the day of DOS, no pretty pics or diagrams back then.


That's the one! That's what I used back then too! I actually used it in DOS when I had a win95 IBM PC. Oh, no, what's going to fall out of the other side of my head now!?
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The XP Partitioning program should work fine for you.  If you want, I can upload the PartitionExpert program to our server for you to download.  I may pawn that duty off on rb though since she has broadband and the file is large...

PartitionExpert can work outside of Windows and it is a good partitioning program.  You might want to look into TrueImage too to create images of your partitions so that you can restore them if things go terribly south...

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How many hours would it take me to download? Remember, I have dial-up, too Smile

I think I still have a lot to learn before attempting this, and I can't back everything up until this weekend. I just forgot what else I was going to say... I think I am having premature senility
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