Under 'Create a Partition or Logical Drive' on Windows Help and Support, it says to go into Disk Management and "Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New Partition".

Problem is, I don't have an unallocated region of basic disk to work with. How can I rectify this?

Currently, I just have C on my computer, but on my old one (which I didn't set up myself) I had F, E and G as WELL and I want to have the same again.

Thanks,
Rob  You can't. You probably used everything to install Windows XP and if you want to repartition, you'll have to reformat or use Partition Magic(click)Actually, I may have another solution. Partition magic will work, but it's not cheap. There is another program besides to partition magic though that will allow you to non-destructively re-size a partition and t is totally free (I like free ), HOWEVER I have not yet tried this program, so progress at your own risk. I may have TIME tonight to throw together a spare PC and try a partition re-size, so I'll see if I can post my results and a walk through of specific steps then. But, if you want to go ahead and download the program and burn it to a CD to get ready, here's what you do:

The program I am speaking of is called gparted live cd. All you have to do is download the ISO, or zipped ISO from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828 and then burn the ISO to a CD.

If you have NEVER burned an ISO disk image please tell us and we'll walk you through the process as it's a bit different than just burning a normal cd. Also, you will need to make sure your PC will boot from the CD-ROM drive. Again, if you have no idea what I am talking about just let us know and we'll explain.

Anyway, I'll see if I can get around to testing this program out later on tonight.Gnome Parted is great, and does what is says on the tin.  Some familiarity with Linux is a huge bonus though, because it uses Linux conventions when describing hard drives, partitions, etc.