creating partitions


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A question for you neowinians out there:

I have a brand new HD which I'm planning to install XP on. Is it possible to create multiple partitions on that drive within the Windows XP installation procedure? or do I need third-party software? I'm planning to create three partitions on a 60 GB drive.

Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated. :)

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if the drive is retail it comes with a sweet little disk the formats and partitions your hdd for you. I know what your thinking "why don't you just use FDISK" I like that to but I got a Maxtor HDD and it came with a disk and I decided to try this out for once and I formatted and partitioned with that and it was pretty nice you can select the amount of partitions etc. 1,2,3... and when you do it the process take like 1 second because it creates a partition table and it is done really fast. But to really answer your question you cannot create multiple partitions with the XP CD.

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Thanks for the replies.

No, unfortunately, it was not retail. Got it OEM from newegg (the best e-tailer out there).

As for partition magic, I've tried it before, and its a great program. The downside? Kind of an expensive solution to the problem, especially if you're not willing to go through the effort of hunting down cracks for it ;).

That being said, any other alternatives?

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