Partioning a drive on an ALREADY partioned drive

andyc · 02-14-2005, 10:51 PM

I have a 250GB Western Digital drive with 8mb cache. I partioned it into two separate drives of 125GB. I have a lot of files on the 2 drives and I want to create another partition on one of these 2 drives (so 3 partitions/drives).

Is this even possible or do i need to reformat first and then partition my 3 separate drives?

or do i need different software? (im using Western Digital's "Data Life-Guard Tools")

Note: My system files are on another drive. (if that even matters

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dave597 · 02-14-2005, 11:02 PM

i think you can, try googling - partition magic. i created a couple of partitions on the end of my second drive with files on before, but i removed them cos they were no use.

andyc · 02-14-2005, 11:39 PM

I downloaded the PowerQuest 8.0 Partition Magic. Was this the one or were you referring to Norton's Partition Magic?

Anyways, i get an erorr message while installing the powerquest version...It says "The wizard was interrupted before PartitionMagic could be completely installed."

Any ideas?

dave597 · 02-14-2005, 11:44 PM

yeh, i did mean powerquests one. erm, when installing do u have admin priveliges? enough hdd space?

andyc · 02-14-2005, 11:51 PM

ya im the admin and i have over 100GB left

i also tried installing on other drives...but that didn't work either

Im also using XP...if that makes a difference

dave597 · 02-14-2005, 11:54 PM

u cud try shutting down all other progs, eg. anti-virus etc.. or u could try nortons one.

andyc · 02-14-2005, 11:59 PM

ya..i can't find the trial nortons tho....i can't find it on their site

Eddie Haskell · 02-15-2005, 07:39 AM

Norton I believe bought out PowerQuest so they should be pretty much the same just different revisions

**Praetor** · 02-15-2005, 07:57 PM

Norton bought it out. Same proggie still, just Nortonized

andyc · 02-15-2005, 08:19 PM

hey do u know how to bypass or get rid of this error message during installtion?

"The wizard was interrupted before PartitionMagic could be completely installed."

The first thing it installs (scripts or somthing)...it goes straight to 74% and then goes to 100% and installs other components and then comes up with the error message

02-14-2005, 10:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
andyc Bronze Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 32	Partioning a drive on an ALREADY partioned drive I have a 250GB Western Digital drive with 8mb cache. I partioned it into two separate drives of 125GB. I have a lot of files on the 2 drives and I want to create another partition on one of these 2 drives (so 3 partitions/drives). Is this even possible or do i need to reformat first and then partition my 3 separate drives? or do i need different software? (im using Western Digital's "Data Life-Guard Tools") Note: My system files are on another drive. (if that even matters )

02-14-2005, 11:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
dave597 VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: England, UK Posts: 1,016	i think you can, try googling - partition magic. i created a couple of partitions on the end of my second drive with files on before, but i removed them cos they were no use. __________________ dual monitor 17" CRT and TFT amd athlon 64 3200+ ati 9600 pro 1 gig ram

02-14-2005, 11:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
dave597 VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: England, UK Posts: 1,016	yeh, i did mean powerquests one. erm, when installing do u have admin priveliges? enough hdd space? __________________ dual monitor 17" CRT and TFT amd athlon 64 3200+ ati 9600 pro 1 gig ram

02-14-2005, 11:54 PM	#6 (permalink)
dave597 VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: England, UK Posts: 1,016	u cud try shutting down all other progs, eg. anti-virus etc.. or u could try nortons one. __________________ dual monitor 17" CRT and TFT amd athlon 64 3200+ ati 9600 pro 1 gig ram

02-15-2005, 07:39 AM	#8 (permalink)
Eddie Haskell Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 90	Norton I believe bought out PowerQuest so they should be pretty much the same just different revisions __________________ "Never Initiate...Retaliate!" Bobby Allison

02-14-2005, 11:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
andyc Bronze Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 32	I downloaded the PowerQuest 8.0 Partition Magic. Was this the one or were you referring to Norton's Partition Magic? Anyways, i get an erorr message while installing the powerquest version...It says "The wizard was interrupted before PartitionMagic could be completely installed." Any ideas?

02-14-2005, 11:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
andyc Bronze Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 32	ya im the admin and i have over 100GB left i also tried installing on other drives...but that didn't work either Im also using XP...if that makes a difference

02-14-2005, 11:59 PM	#7 (permalink)
andyc Bronze Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 32	ya..i can't find the trial nortons tho....i can't find it on their site

02-15-2005, 07:57 PM	#9 (permalink)
Praetor Administrator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 26 Posts: 19,953	Norton bought it out. Same proggie still, just Nortonized __________________ ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8 4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400 5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10 OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI

02-15-2005, 08:19 PM	#10 (permalink)
andyc Bronze Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 32	hey do u know how to bypass or get rid of this error message during installtion? "The wizard was interrupted before PartitionMagic could be completely installed." The first thing it installs (scripts or somthing)...it goes straight to 74% and then goes to 100% and installs other components and then comes up with the error message

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