I have found XP's disk partitioning

I was poking around at my computer - anyway, everyone knows about 'fdisk' - well, fdisk led me to purchase Partition Magic some years ago. I bought Partition Magic back in the days of WindowsME so I never bothered to research partitioning with XP.

Anyway, if you right-click on 'My Computer' on your desktop - then select 'Manage' - then select 'Disk Management' it appears right there - how cool is that?

I never knew that was there.

I shall proceed to use that on my new WD MyBook external hard-drive.

Yep, I came across it completely by accident as well last year (or maybe the year before that). Although it's useful not having to mess around at a command line with FDISK, the Disk Management tool still doesn't allow you to resize partitions, so Partition Magic still has it's uses.

Indeed - since discovering it, I've found it to be slightly bent and have been searching for my Partition Magic CD.

I prefer the GParted Live CD.
You can edit every partition on your computer, because nothing is running off the hard drive :)

Slow, but effective.

This is also in win 2000 !

...Or you can go to Control Panel -> System Administration -> Computer Management.

Or you can start MMC and select the disk management snap-in.

Been there all the time since NT ;)

Though the first useful version came up with W2K.

you need this sometimes when you're using flash drives. Windows for some weird reason sometimes tries to assign the same drive letter to a new USB drive as a network drive you already have. So when you plug in a USB drive and it doesn't appear, check in here first then change the drive letter to an unused one.

NT has always had the disk management snap-in, it was only ever not present in 9x. XP is the first consumer orientated version of NT which is why it's not familiar to you. NT has a set of tools and logs because it's a reasonably robust and professional OS rather than 9x which was really an enormous, bloated and unstable DOS-Extension with a bunch of utility programs.

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