Hard drive partition

I have a 80 GB hard drive that is configured in FAT32. I am interested in setting up a partition and leaving half, 40gig, as FAT32 and the other half NTFS. I am using Windows XP home edition. I am looking for any suggestions and/or tutorial. Thanks.

 

I suspect that you want to keep the existing installation and divide the disk, right? If so, Partition Magic would be the easiest way to do it.

 

I essentially was to leave everything on my hard drive, about 30 gigs worth, as is. Then split off or partition a portion of the remainder of my hard drive, 40 gigs, and utilize that as NTFS. I don't want to loose any of my current info. Is it possible to just designate 40 GB as a new drive and reformat it to NTFS?

 

it is definately possible but as johnwill said, you will need a non-destructive partioning program (such as partition magic) to do it without losing data.

 

Thanks for the input, I'll probably give that a shot. One more question though... my computer is configured as follows:
Hard drive is master, cd-rw is slave in one IDE port. DVD-RW is master and DVD-ROM is slave on other IDE port. 3.5 inch floppy has it's own port. Those are the only ports on my motherboard. Can I install an additional internal hard drive and slave it to the 3.5 inch drive? Thanks in advance.

 

no you cant. you would have to add another controller.

my suggestion is to pull the dvd-rom and stick with the dvd-rw since the RW will read and the dvd-rom is now not really needed imho.