Changing the number of partitions

[3budbeer]

Hay there,
When I first used True image 8 a year or so ago I first used the "add new disk" to add a secondary drive to my system. With true image I made 2 partitions to this secondary hard drive. 1st one ruffly 15 gb that I used to keep the backup image of my primary drive and the second partition is about 125gb that I used for storing my cd music collection. Of this second partition I only used up about 45gb of it for the music.
Now the problem. I have about 80gb of unused space on the second partition of the secondary drive and would like to make one or more new partitions from this unused space. When I try to use True image to make new partitions of this space I can't. There is no unallocated space available left on the second partition or anywhere else on the drive. That makes sence. How can I make that 80 gb of unused free space back into unallocated space so I can make additional partitions out of it? Can anyone tell me how to do this with TI or windows XP? NOTE: none of these existing partitions are secure zoned.
Please by detailed as possable in your directs. This TI confusses the crap out of me sometimes.

Please help.
Thanks

TrueImage 8.0
build 800
Windows XP

[rdgrimes]

TI is not a partitioning tool. The best tool for this is Partition Magic, but you can use the limited functionality of Windows to get the job done. Just go to Computer Management, Disc Management and delete the partition then create what you wish.

It's good to note that creating multiple partitions will slow your hard drive performance and gains you nothing. If you just want to organize stuff, folders are just as good and more easily managed.

[3budbeer]

Thanks rdgrimes for your info.
I can't just delete that partition. If I delete it I'll loose what's on it. I took me about 15-20 hours putting my misic collection from cd to hard drive. I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick than go through that again.

Will that partition magic software do what I need? The reason for wanting more partitions is so I can use them for storing backup images of my other computers primary drives. U'm not just trying to creat seperated file storage. This secondary drive I've been talking about is in a hot swap case.
Thanks

[lagerstedt]

Hi,

You could try Disk Director. It might do the job. I have used a few times to create new partitions or to resize them.