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Does anyone here know of a good, easy to use freeware program that will set up partitions in a HD that is already in use and is unpartitoned?
I just got a new Seagate 500GB SATA drive. I installed and used the function in the drives software that "cloned" the contents of my old drive to the new one- this saved me having to do a complete re-install of XP with ground-up reinstallation of all the programs on the drive.
It worked flawlessly, and now everything is now on the new drive, but there is only the one partition for the whole drive, and I would like to create a few to keep things better organized and make defragging easier.
Any advise?

First, is that the only drive you have?

If not, clone that OS onto another drive and format and partition your new one.

If not.. I'm out of info..

Freeware

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Super_Fdisk_d4985.html

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freewar ... n-manager/

or (Shareware licence @ $39.95)

http://majorgeeks.com/Paragon_Partition ... d2812.html

I'd be inclined to go with Paragon, or Fdisk

Just get System Rescue - live cd linux http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

this is stand-alone linux that has a clone of pqmagic, I used it several times; i am not sure if it works with sata disks, but it is worth a try (in last case it will not show any drive).

so just boot up from cd, follow on-screen info to run gparted or whatever you like...

Thanks for the info! I had already partitioned the drive, but for some reason the acronis software that came with the disk would'nt allow partitions on the drive it was cloning to?
I'll give the paragon a try.

Tried the paragon program- every thing went fine until it came time to finalize the setting of the partitions, then I got a " you need to purchase the full version of this program to do this" message.
I might not be able to do this using freeware.