Using Partition Magic To Manage Your Disks - Page3
Once we have clicked OK, we are returned to the previous disk map screen where we can see 50% of the disk space marked as "Unallocated" :
4. Creating our D: partition.
The free space we created in the previous operation can now be used to make our D: partition. In order to do this, we must return to the "Operations" menu, and select "Create".
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A word about partition types. As you can see from looking at the right side of the partition list in the above screenshot, our C: drive is labelled as a "primary" partition. A partition must be created as "primary" if we wish to use it as a bootable partition that an operating system, such as Windows 98 can run from. If you create your boot drive as an "extended" partition, you will not be able to start your computer from the hard disk. One notable exception to this rule is Linux, which requires an extended partition to boot.
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Once you have selected "Create" from the Operations menu, you will be presented with the following screen :
As you can see, we have selected a logical partition as the type to create, since this allows us to make several drive letters such as D: & E: if we so desire. For the purposes of this guide, we will only need to create a D: drive.
You may also notice, that the partition type is set to "FAT", and that the size is only 2039.5 Megabytes. This is a limitation in the old FAT file system used by MS-Dos, and the earliest versions of Windows 95. You should click the down arrow beside FAT, and select FAT32 as shown in the screenshot below :
As you can see, changing the partition type to FAT32 has allowed us to use all of the free space created by shrinking the C: partition. Also note that you can label your new drive as "storage", or "files" etc.
Once you are happy that Partition Magic is creating a new drive just as you intended, click OK to continue.