I have a 10gig hard drive with about 5gig free. XP will not allow me to create a extended partion. Apparently It does'nt see any available space to create partion.When I go to right click on my primary drive theres no free space shown I'm using an NTFS file system.
Any Ideas?????

If you haven't already tried it, there is an excellent Freeware application named Ranish Partition Manager. It is very reliable and stable. It will show what partitions already exist and allow to create additional partitions in any extra space.

I use Win98, so I'm not sure what the XP problem is.

I hope this is a help,
Bob

I don't think he partition manager that comes with BeOS Pro should have any problem making a partition for itself on your drive when you install the second OS. It will make the partition in BFS. Once you have BeOS installed, I think you will need to get the patch from bebits.com that will allow you to mount the NTFS partition on which your Windows resides. Good luck!

You can't create a partition on an active XP drive.

If you use a program like ranish be sure to use a defrag program and study about XP to be sure that no needed file exist at the end of the disk. Better still get a program that is made for XP and NTFS 5.x. See if you can't try partition magic or a program like that. Not sure if BeOS's drive setup wouldn't leave some needed files behind as it doesn't move files only re-partitions the drive.

You shouldn't need the NTFS drive for BeOSR5 since beos can read a mounted NTFS 5 drive already. The ability to boot into a PE install has not been shown to work on everyones machine.

Might end up having to do a complete XP install again but partition the drive as you wish. Always easy in hind sight.

If there really is five gigs of unused hard drive space, he shouldn't have to resize the NTFS partition, correct?

Unless, of course, he's saying that he has a 10 gig partition over the entire disk, and it is 50% full.

Perhaps Johnny Smith should clarify...

-Bob

We never hear the whole story. The only two people you can trust is the smartest and the most ignorant. The smartest fixed it and the one that knows nothing doesn't know it is broken. I am usually inbetween. I know it is broken and can't fix it.

...I'm always trying to fix things that aren't broken...

I am not sure why u cant do it, i did on my machine after i had xp pro installed. the only catch is you need a boot disk to use Beos.