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 Creating Dual Boot Systems

Partition Management

In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to carry out partitioning operations supported by the program.

Basic Partitioning Operations

Here you can learn how to accomplish basic partitioning operations (create, format, delete).

Creating Partitions

The program provides the ability to create a new partition by using the DOS partitioning scheme. This operation can be

accomplished either with the Create Partition Wizard or the Create Partition Dialog.

Besides there's the Express Create Partition Wizard that will analyze your disk subsystem to help you create an NTFS

partition in the most appropriate place of your hard disk by up-taking all the unallocated disk space (if any) and/or an

innocuous slice of the unused space of an adjacent partition, and then make it available in the system by assigning a

drive letter.

Restrictions

1. Do not use the Create Partition function in order to undelete the last deleted partition.

2. The program cannot create new partitions on Dynamic Disks. The current version of the program supports only

hard disks that use the DOS partitioning scheme (in Windows 2000 and XP these disks are named Basic Disks).

3. According to the rules of the DOS partitioning scheme, the following combinations of partitions cannot be

created:

- Two Extended Partitions on one hard disk

- Five or more Primary partitions on one hard disk

- If there is an Extended Partition on the disk, only three Primary partitions are allowed

4. The program allows creating new partitions only within blocks of un-partitioned space. It cannot convert a free

space on an existing partition to a new partition.

Express Create Partition Wizard Startup

There are several ways to start the Express Create Partition Wizard:

Launcher

 In the Main menu: select Wizards > Express Create Partition…

 On the Common Tasks bar: click the Express Create item of the Wizards menu.

Create Partition Wizard Startup

There are several ways to start the Create Partition Wizard:

Express Launcher

 Click the Partitioning button and then select Create Partition.

Launcher