Hack 42 Create a New Partition with NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 
Use XP's Disk Management
console to create a new partition in unused disk space.
You can create a new partition in
unallocated or unused space on a disk drive with
Windows XP or partitioning software
like PartitionMagic. In this hack, we'll create a
new 20 GB NTFS partition in unallocated disk
space using Windows XP's Disk Management tools. To
do this, launch Control Panel, select Administrative Tools, then
Computer Management, double-click Disk Management under Storage, and
follow these steps:
Right-click on the area marked Unallocated. Select New Partition from
the menu that appears (Figure 5-3).
 When the New Partition wizard introduction dialog appears, click Next. The New Partition wizard gives you the choice of making a new primary
partition, or an extended partition, as in Figure 5-4. Create a primary partition, then click Next.
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A drive may contain up to four primary partitions, or three Primary
partitions and an extended partition (which may contain
logical drives, letting you overcome the four-drive limit that
primary partitions impose). Primary partitions may be made
bootable
for Windows or other operating systems.
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Next you can set the new partition (Figure 5-5) to
the desired size (20 GB in this example).
 The next option is to assign a drive letter to the new partition for
when it is formatted. At this point, the next available drive letter
is E:, as shown in Figure 5-6, which is fine for
now. Normally a second disk or partition would become drive D:, but
if you already have a CD-ROM drive as D:, that letter will be
claimed. You can come back to Disk Management and change this later. The final step in this process is to format the new partition.
Figure 5-7 shows the default values to be used. You
can elect not to format the partition at this time, which is fine if
you intend to install another operating system to boot off this
partition, or decide to format it later, but we'll
format it for NTFS now. You may also choose between NTFS and FAT-32 for the partition type,
select the allocation or cluster size, and give the new drive a
label. When you are done with your selections and changes, click
Next.
 After you choose the formatting options, you'll get
a summary dialog of the actions to be taken with the new partition.
You can still back up to revise your selections or cancel at this
point. Once you click Finish, the partitioning and formatting process
starts, and in a few minutes you'll be ready to use
the new space.
5.4.1 Partitioning During Windows Setup
By default, the Windows NT, 2000, XP, or Windows Server
2003 setup program will claim all of the space on a bare hard drive.
This does not leave you any free space to dabble with different
partitions or operating systems.
Instead of letting one operating system
"own" the entire drive, change the
amount of space for the operating system to a value large enough to
hold all of the operating system files, your normal application
programs, and as much data as you think you'll cram
onto the drive—20 to 30 GB is usually adequate. To constrain
the installation to a smaller space, wait until you get to the screen
showing the unpartitioned space, select that space, and press C to
create a partition. When prompted for the size of the drive, type in
the amount of disk space you want the installation to use. The rest
will be available to hold other primary or logical
partitions.
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