Partition XP on MAC...plz reply soon

[sunilojha2kn]

Hi all, Well i have installed XP on MACBOOK PRO and its running fine. But in XP i have only one drive of 120 gb and i want it to partition into three drives C: D: and E: drive of 40 gb each. For this i tried to install Partition Magic 8 but it isn't starting and it is giving the following error:-

"Error 117: "Partition's drive letter cannot be identified"

and I even tried Acronis Disk Director and it is giving the error :-

"Unsupported hard diskdrives. Acronis Disk Director does not support windows on dynamic disks, EZ-Drives etc. ".

So please give me any solution to partition drives in XP. Thanks in advance.

[wgilles]

I don't know if this actually works, but have you tried disk utility in OS X and try to do it from there? Also, I think Windows usually makes your CD/DVD drive Drive D...so it might not be able to change it. If you don't mind me asking, why do you need so many partitions?

[sunilojha2kn]

Acutally, I have always been an avid windows user and my current desktop has similar partition C, D & E. but here I only have C. so in case I have to format Windows atleast I will be able to store my Data to a different drive and do what ever I want to on C.

Here the only thing I know is start everything from scratch and divide partitions using boot camp but here I don't want to repeat all the things.

Partition software just failed on it, so is there any way I can do that I want. Thanks in advance

[crees!]

I'd take Wgillies advice and use Disk Utility to partition the drives how you want.

[peterlobl]

So please give me any solution to partition drives in XP. Thanks in advance.

diskpart.exe is built into all windows xp/vista... kind of like dos fdisk but more powerful... not sure if u want to go this route, but if u do, here's some info on resetting partitions

http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1241594,00.html#

searching diskpart might help as well - also - using ntfs (as opposed to fat32)will speed up partition use under windows, but will make your volumes read-only (mostly!) under OSX - I like that, as you can copy over info into mac enviro and not change it (which is why you have a mac I imagine)

good luck!