flow Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I have a Dell Inspirion with four primary partitions on the HD as following 1. DE dells 54.9M primary 2. NTFS my XP system 27G primary Boot section 3. AF Tiger-x86 6.6G primary 4. CP/M backup 3.8G primary what I want to do is to resize the NTFS partion to 26G and make a new partion (FAT32) for exchanging data between xp and tiger what I did was successfully resized the NTFS with partitionmagic to 26G and with one partition unallocated between NTFS and AF. somehow I stucked right there, there is no way I can create a new partition in this unallocated partition? is there anyhope I can have the FAT32 without delete anything? thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3625-help-me-out-for-fat32-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I have a Dell Inspirion with four primary partitions on the HD as following 1. DE dells 54.9M primary 2. NTFS my XP system 27G primary Boot section 3. AF Tiger-x86 6.6G primary 4. CP/M backup 3.8G primary what I want to do is to resize the NTFS partion to 26G and make a new partion (FAT32) for exchanging data between xp and tiger what I did was successfully resized the NTFS with partitionmagic to 26G and with one partition unallocated between NTFS and AF. somehow I stucked right there, there is no way I can create a new partition in this unallocated partition? is there anyhope I can have the FAT32 without delete anything? thanks How familiar are you with Partition Magic? You should select the unallocated space, right-click and select "create". You can then choose to create a FAT32 partition in that space. If that's not working, come back with details of which version of PM you're using and, if you can manage it send a screenshot of what the PM window looks like with that unallocated space. If I've misunderstood your problem let me know. -s- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3625-help-me-out-for-fat32-partition/#findComment-22911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flow Posted October 19, 2005 Author Share Posted October 19, 2005 first of all, How can I put a picture here? what I used is Norton partition magic 8.0 After I resized the NTFS the dark blank area (unallocated partition)is 1G when I right clicked the mouse on it, there were only "Undelete..""Properties..." available and all rest options were disabled I couldnt even access to the "create..." item and the Tasks->Create a new partition doesnt work either I remembered when I resized the original 35G NTFS to 27G and left 6.6G blank then I create the partition in "cmd" window with "diskpart" -->create partition primary id=AF but now when I did the diskpart in cmd window create partition logical------unable to create create partition extended----->unable to create create partition primary------->unable to create hmmm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3625-help-me-out-for-fat32-partition/#findComment-22988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Well.. I've been wondering about this myself, as some people seem to be able to get the most amazing partitioning setups, but... If you have 4 primaries can you have any more partitions? I thought you had to go 3 primary & then 1 extended if you wanted more than 4... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3625-help-me-out-for-fat32-partition/#findComment-23004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Well.. I've been wondering about this myself, as some people seem to be able to get the most amazing partitioning setups, but... If you have 4 primaries can you have any more partitions? I thought you had to go 3 primary & then 1 extended if you wanted more than 4... X86 partitioning only supports 4 primary partitions. So you need another hard disk. Actually, it looks like your 1st partition is a small FAT partition. Perhaps you could use that for passing data. Are you really running some version of CP/M? or is that last one a data partition. If data, perhaps you could convert it to extended using partion magic, then make a FAT32 extended partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3625-help-me-out-for-fat32-partition/#findComment-23657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc_guru Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 first of all, How can I put a picture here?... Well, i believe that you can to hit "PrtScr" key (on your keyboard, near of keypad), this will get an image of your screen, after go to any graphic tool (like paintbrush, by example), create a new document, hit "paste" option (Ctl+V) and save it (as jpeg/jpg). Finally post it as attachment. Try it and after tell us, if you got it. Good luck !! . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3625-help-me-out-for-fat32-partition/#findComment-24001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Honestly, get ahold of Acronis partition manager... Partition Magic just reports my whole drive that has OS X on it as being bad and refuses to do anything but format it. Acronis lets me still work with the partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3625-help-me-out-for-fat32-partition/#findComment-24007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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