I just bought a new Acer emachines E250 with Microsoft XP Home edition SP3 pre-installed.. the harddisk of 160 GB has already been partitioned into 2 - one c drive with 140 GB and the other PQSERVICE with 10 GB.. I want to divide the C Drive ( 140 GB) into 3 parts... But I am not getting any option relating to make a partition, etc.. in the disk management screeen.. Kindly help..1 person needs an answerI do too

"Dr Viraj" wrote in message news:2a4de6bb-cc15-49f6-8014-55d053113e72... >I just bought a new Acer emachines E250 with Microsoft XP Home edition SP3 >pre-installed.. > > the harddisk of 160 GB has already been partitioned into 2 - one c drive > with 140 GB and the other PQSERVICE with 10 GB.. > > I want to divide the C Drive ( 140 GB) into 3 parts... But I am not > getting any option relating to make a partition, etc.. in the disk > management screeen.. > > Kindly help.. > XP doesn't have the native capability to do that. You'll have to use third-party utilities such as BootItNG (the original Bing!<g>). -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk