Partition using cmd prompt?

[stevejohnson1958]

To further expand on nothlit's recommendation...

Partition Magic would be your best bet.  Also, the additional hard drive would work as well.

If it were a Vista OS, you could use the "shrink" functionality of diskpart, but unfortunately, XP doesn't have this function.

So, nothlit is correct...

Some additional info

[lindacn]

  Why not try partition tools and there are some free, such as EASEUS Partition Manager...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/EASEUS-Partition-Manager.shtml

[mstsuzuka]

Hi, i tried the above method to partition my 120GB tumbdrive, but it does not work.

diskpart

list disk

select disk 1  (in my case its disk 1 for my tumbdrive)

create partition extended [10000]



but all that comes out is the who list of commands that appears if you type "help" in the command prompt.

any suggestions?
thanks

[michelleAudacity]

I saw you were having some trouble a while back?
If'n you still are with the partition with cmd.. I saw that once you were in the DISKPART and typed "help" and got the prompt with everything, you got a list of things.
If you typed "partition" you got the help list again, so type
"CREATE PARTITION"

and that should get you a list that looks something like this:
DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION

Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565

EFI         - Create an EFI system partition.
EXTENDED    - Create an extended partition.
LOGICAL     - Create a logical drive.
MSR         - Create a Microsoft reserved partition.
PRIMARY     - Create a primary partition.

and you choose whichever you want and it should guide you though the rest I'm assuming?

[patio]

He hasn't been back since May of last Year...

[mstsuzuka]

I saw you were having some trouble a while back?
If'n you still are with the partition with cmd.. I saw that once you were in the DISKPART and typed "help" and got the prompt with everything, you got a list of things.
If you typed "partition" you got the help list again, so type
"CREATE PARTITION"

and that should get you a list that looks something like this:
DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION

Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565

EFI         - Create an EFI system partition.
EXTENDED    - Create an extended partition.
LOGICAL     - Create a logical drive.
MSR         - Create a Microsoft reserved partition.
PRIMARY     - Create a primary partition.

and you choose whichever you want and it should guide you though the rest I'm assuming?

will try when i have the time. Thanks for your help. really appreciate it ^^