hello, actually i wanted to create an additional partition. in the disk management i should click right mouse on the free space area within the basic disk to start the new partition wizard. there is no free space area everything blue which is primary disk, but there are more than 20gb free on the disk. any idea whats wrong and why no free area is indicated? thanks a lot for your support! roland

What you mean is that you have 20 gigs of free space on your C: drive and you wanted to use it to make a separate partition but you can't because when the system was installed, it used the entire hard disk to create the primary partition. You don't have any unallocated free space to create a new partition with. If you install from scratch you will get to a prompt to create a partition to install 2000 on and if you accept the defaults it will use the whole drive - but you can tell it to use less and then you will have unallocated free space which you can use to create more partitions with. In the meantime, it may be possible to use a product called Partition Magic to re-partition on the fly. It says that it allows you to copy, move, resize or split partitions without losing data.

Or a freeware called Ranish partition manager. I would be very careful with this. Many folks that haven't used partitioning software end up back here asking how to recover thier data. BACKUP and valuble files BEFORE attempting to partition the disk.

O Hill, Yeah, An uninformed user tinkering with partition tools is like a six year old with a chain saw. Seems like great fun for a while. M2