How did you partition the disk?

How did you partition the disk under xp? I tried norton partitionmagic 8. But it cannot use. It shown "partition's driver letter cannot be identified". The partition manager also does not work. I do not know how can I partition the disk?

How can I use the ecover management?

 

What is PQSERVICE for?

 

XP Recovery...

 

when these these things ship out of the factory, there are 2 partitions on the drive.

a hidden partition that has the EErecovery on it and the xp partition.

when I insatalled XP, I removed all partitons... BUT.. I have a factory image of my hard drive so i can restore the factory partitons if i wanted to..

I also noticed if you use the recovery DVD's, it looked like there was no factory erecovery partiton anymore. I thought those might re-create it...

 

I used EASEUS Partition Master to partition my D150, it worked like a charm. Home variant is free.

 

GParted works perfectly for me. Use Unetbootin to copy onto a memory card/USB stick. Got my 120GB partitioned 4 ways. WinXP/Win7/OSX and storage drive.

 

Acronis works perfect for XP.

 

I'm interested in creating a Linux partition on a 160gb XP drive without access to an external optical drive, and without destroying XP. I have a Linpus iso image. Am I correct to assume that I could use the Windows version of unetbootin to create a linux partition, and install Linpus from a 2 or 4 gb USB flash drive? Alternatively, is there any reason this would not work with an 8gb class 6 SD memory card?

I tried creating a bootable SD memory card from an AA1 110 recovery USB, and it appeared to start the boot process on an AA1 150, nothing happened after 5 minutes. The right hand padlock indicator above the keyboard was flashing, but the disk activity light was not.

 

I could have swore I posted to this already. Use unetbootin to burn a GPARTED iso to a SD card. Then you can do the partitions from there.

 

This method worked great for me too.