installed xp. partition size ?

[getyourbiglobster]

hello-

i just installed windows xp. right now i have a 10 gig hd that has 2 partitions.

cwindows)7.5gig
d: 2.5 gig

before i installed xp i had about 7 of my 10 gigs filled.

i am now thinking that maybe i should have xp on the smaller partition?
i also have a separate 6gig hd that i will be adding in a few minutes.

my plans are to use the:
c: for windows & other programs
d: ?
other hd: internet/mp3/pictures

does it really matter? if so, is there a way to change partition size?

thanks for your help.

[Rancher]

Partition Magic get it here http://www.powerquest.com/webstore/

[getyourbiglobster]

thanks, i'll try that.

i just connected the 2nd. hd and windows recognized it, but i cannot access it, nor is it seen in my computer.

i can see it in hardware profiles though...

thanks again.

[Rancher]

Lobster, if you can not see the hard drive when you open "My Computer" then winxp doesn't "See it". Instead of clicking on harware profiles button in the system properties menu, click on the Devicemanager button, then in this menu click the plus+ sign by you hard drive icon to see if the new hard drive is here. Ah, did you partition & format this drive in FDisk? Rancher

[getyourbiglobster]

Rancher-

thanks for the reply.

i checked it out and i can see the hd in Device Manager, so windows is 'seeing' it, but still not in My Computer.

i got the drive from a friend who said he was giving me an "empty" drive. what do i need to do to fdisk and format this baby?

thanks again for your help.

[Rancher]

Wrong, deviceman sees what the bios picks up & My Computer sees what winxp picks up from the registry. To determine the windows rediness of this drive bootup with a win98 startup disk in drive a. When ask "do you want cdrom support" arrow down to "NO"[enter]. At the prompt type; fdisk [enter] follow the menu. I think pressing 4 will show details of the drive such as active primary partition size etc. I would just choose delete partition if one is already there & start over as you stated this is an empty drive but could have residual files that are viri or corrupt. After partitioning the drive restart the puter with NO CDROM support again & this time type; format c: [enter]if you have no win98 startup disk or a friend that does email me i will send you one 1.3mb rancher

[getyourbiglobster]

thanks, i was able to accomplish this by--

right click my computer -manage -disk management

then formatted.

[Rancher]

Kewl, ya just taught me something. I see if the disk in already seen by windows (formated) then the format line is greyed out.