Make Partition in External Hardisk in Vista

Hello, i got a 320GB notebook external and i want to make 3 partition
with respect to 120,120 and the rest (probably 58GB). but seems i try
the disk management but still cant make it done. Can it be done in vista
or any partition software can solve this??


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If your disk is still new (empty). You may delete existing partitition and
create partitions and volumes as you wish.

If you already have some files on your disk and your existing partition
spans thru whole disk, you will need some partition management software.

"stephen0606" <> wrote in message
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> Hello, i got a 320GB notebook external and i want to make 3 partition
> with respect to 120,120 and the rest (probably 58GB). but seems i try
> the disk management but still cant make it done. Can it be done in vista
> or any partition software can solve this??
>
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> stephen0606

Ya, already using NTFS, and i try using Norton Partition magic 8.0 in my
xp desktop but it seems cant, it even recognize my external as BADMBR.
:cry:
but my hardisk can open and access as normal in my desktop.....


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stephen0606 <> wrote:

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>> Have you tried to make the disk use NTFS?
>>
> Ya, already using NTFS, and i try using Norton Partition magic 8.0 in my
> xp desktop but it seems cant, it even recognize my external as BADMBR.
> :cry:
> but my hardisk can open and access as normal in my desktop.....


When it was Powerquest Partition Magic, IIRC, it could not be used with disk
drives above 137GB, which arrived after the last version was made. I would
have thought that Norton would have seen to this before releasing it again,
but as the version number never changed, it looks like they may be selling a
product that is hopelessly out of date.

I use Acronis Disk Director, but I have seen someone post this here
recently:

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

It's free.

ss.

I always find Vista's disk management somewhat temperamental especially when
it comes to removable drives. For this reason I prefer to use third party
disk management tools such as Acronis Disk Director.

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"stephen0606" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> Hello, i got a 320GB notebook external and i want to make 3 partition
> with respect to 120,120 and the rest (probably 58GB). but seems i try
> the disk management but still cant make it done. Can it be done in vista
> or any partition software can solve this??
>
>
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> stephen0606

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stephen0606 <> wrote:
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>Hello, i got a 320GB notebook external and i want to make 3 partition
>with respect to 120,120 and the rest (probably 58GB). but seems i try
>the disk management but still cant make it done. Can it be done in vista
>or any partition software can solve this??

start-run-cmd

fdisk



Disk management should work fine though try formatting it first...

yeah! i agree with you coz i've solve the problem with Acronis Disk
Director Suite where it works absolutely well in vista without error
when i run it. And i successfully partitioned my HDD to
120GB,120GB,57.8GB.

Thanks everyone for the information!!

John Barnett MVP;906468 Wrote:
> I always find Vista's disk management somewhat temperamental especially
> when
> it comes to removable drives. For this reason I prefer to use third
> party
> disk management tools such as Acronis Disk Director.
>
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