To further expand on nothlit's recommendation...

Partition MAGIC would be your best bet. Also, the additional hard drive would work as well.

If it were a Vista OS, you could use the "shrink" functionality of diskpart, but unfortunately, XP doesn't have this function.

So, nothlit is correct...

Some additional info Why not try partition tools and there are some free, such as EASEUS Partition Manager...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/EASEUS-Partition-Manager.shtmlHi, i tried the above method to partition my 120GB tumbdrive, but it does not work.

diskpart

list disk

select disk 1 (in my case its disk 1 for my tumbdrive)

create partition extended [10000]



but all that COMES out is the who list of commands that appears if you type "help" in the command prompt.

any suggestions?
thanks

I saw you were having some trouble a while back?
If'n you still are with the partition with cmd.. I saw that once you were in the DISKPART and typed "help" and got the prompt with everything, you got a list of things.
If you typed "partition" you got the help list again, so type
"CREATE PARTITION"

and that should get you a list that looks something like this:
DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION

Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565

EFI - Create an EFI system partition.
EXTENDED - Create an extended partition.
LOGICAL - Create a logical drive.
MSR - Create a Microsoft reserved partition.
PRIMARY - Create a primary partition.

and you choose WHICHEVER you want and it should GUIDE you though the rest I'm assuming?He hasn't been back since May of last Year...Quote from: michelleAudacity on May 20, 2009, 03:29:06 PM

I saw you were having some trouble a while back?
If'n you still are with the partition with cmd.. I saw that once you were in the DISKPART and typed "help" and got the prompt with everything, you got a list of things.
If you typed "partition" you got the help list again, so type
"CREATE PARTITION"

and that should get you a list that looks something like this:
DISKPART> CREATE PARTITION

Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565

EFI - Create an EFI system partition.
EXTENDED - Create an extended partition.
LOGICAL - Create a logical drive.
MSR - Create a Microsoft reserved partition.
PRIMARY - Create a primary partition.

and you choose whichever you want and it should guide you though the rest I'm assuming?