Unable to partition C: Hard Drive

[Jonesy]

I have a 120Gb Maxtor 7200 rpm 8MB cache which I use as my C drive. I have tried, using both Partition Magic 7 and Acronis PartitionExpert Personal, to carry out the task but to no avail. Both programs show the projected partitions correctly and, on pressing the 'execute' button, informs me that a reboot is required. I press the OK button and my computer reboots but on checking My Computer I find that nothing has happened. I read up on the documentation for Partition Magic and it stated that GoBack (which I have installed) had to be uninstalled prior to partitioning: this I did but I ended up with the same result - no partition. I have another hard drive on my computer which I have used Partition Magic to partition successfully.

Whether it is relevant, but I have recently done a clean reinstall of Windows XP HE and the SP2. Any suggestions?

 

[Addis]

You cn always partition the drive during a Windows XP boot setup if all else fails. Or you might be able to use the FDisk command but I'm not all too sure.

 

[Byt3]

I got a way for u... u have to have XP thou...

Go to Control panel (THIS MITE NOT BE PERFECTLY CORRECT AS I HAVE WIN XP 64 BIT EDITION BUT HEY)

Control panel>Classic View>Administrative tools>Computer Managment>Storage

Under storage, disk managment...

and then rite click and Partition...



ORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, download a program called PARTITION MAGIC.... i no downloading software is rong.... (blah blah blah) but im sure theres a free trial out there sumwhere...