new hard drive partitioning

hi to all!
recently i replaced HD with a new one on my acer aspire 5100 and i need to do 2 partitions on it
I'm wondering if my acer system recovery disk can do the job during recovery process?

 

Welcome to the forum savon
Acer eRecovery will revert your notebook to factory state so if you had two partitions when you bought it- then yes.
If it doesn't you can simply use Windows disk management tool (control panel/admin tools) to do it yourself.

 

you mean after i have my XP installed?
what if I use third part software like paragon partition manager first,than I'll run my recovery disk and choose desired partition to install XP?

 

It doesn't work like this. There is an option (in eRecoevery) to use only C partition as it is and leave the rest unchanged these days but I'm not sure if there was an option like this back in XP days.
If there wasn't you may partition all you want but eRecovery will repartition to what it wants. That's why it would be easier to use eRecovery first and then use XP to create a new partition(s) as you please.

 

hi there!!
I installed xp from my recovery disk on my new HD successfully
Now I want partition this disk...I did as I told by you using XP management tool and try to do partition in cmd using diskpart command and eventually I've got message "diskpart unable to create the specific partition "
maybe that's because I have home edition version of XP?

 

Hi,

After the installation of Windows, there are already partitions existing.
How big is the new HDD, and how big is the partition Windows is installed into? Perhaps your Windows partition consumes all the entire HDD capacity. Windows disc management console should help you finding out.

Michael

 

I found out that I cannot partition my 240GB HDD because I have no unallocated space
I have only one partition defined by acer recovery disk during installation that is system partition,then I've got another question , is there another way to get unallocated space or partition HDD without reinstalling system?

 

You have to shrink the current partition by as much as you want the second partition to be and then create the second partition from this unallocated space.
You may get an info that you can't shrink partition more that X GB- that's probably because some system files are there. You can either defragment HDD- it sometimes works or use a freeware application that will schedule a defragmentation at boot and create a partition- I did the same thing however I can't remember the name of the app :/

 

to make new partition use Easeus partition manager

cheers

 

I have an Acer Netbook that cannot load Windows XP during the boot process. I tried to use the Acer eRecovery Management Program and tried to create a backup image and restore to factory settings. This worked only halfway, it created the backup image, but did not restore to factory settings. I ran a bootable antivirus from a flash drive. The image is there but nothing else. If I use a Windows XP flash drive to reinstall XP, can I create the new partition using a different drive letter so not to overwrite the backup image? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.