# need help quick... partitions
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 6, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980 "2006-06-06T13:42:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/1 "2006-06-06T13:42:03Z")
need help partitioning “existing” hard drive space… anyone know of a good program to use?
I, currently, have approx 96 gigs free on my main HDD… I wanted to take about 75gigs of that un-used space and create a new partition to boot vista from… any ideas? only thing I can find is how to delete a partition and make new ones from that (which I dont want to do) or make new partitions from free, unpartitioned hdd space (which I dont need either)
thanks
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/2 "2006-06-06T13:48:52Z")
Partition magic
get it somehow
I don’t like making partitions like that, but if you are lazy, that’s what you want.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/3 "2006-06-06T13:49:56Z")
thanks man :tup:
yeah… I should of thought ahead… I could just do it over, but I’m running on a fresh install of XP (like 2 days fresh) and dont want to do it over again 😛
is it bad to do or something?
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/4 "2006-06-06T13:51:09Z")
fdisk or partition magic
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/5 "2006-06-06T13:53:17Z")
Oh, if you just did a fresh install, there’s probably not much data writing all over, so you’re in a lot better shape to do that.
This is why i like SAN servers. Oh, want to create another partition? New LUN! Partition too small? No problem! Just add to the LUN! restart, all set. lol
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/6 "2006-06-06T13:55:31Z")
lol thanks gents… appreciate the help. I think I actually have partition magic laying around here somewhere
is it pretty blatent? as far as how to set it up? I’m not an idot, although I’m not an IT professional either lol
thanks again
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/7 "2006-06-06T14:26:07Z")
> [@SC\_Steve](#):
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> is it pretty blatent? as far as how to set it up? I’m not an idot, although I’m not an IT professional either lol
Its very simple with partition magic…
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-quick-partitions/12980/8 "2006-06-06T14:45:57Z")
uh… yeah, so whats a “UDF” file system? keep getting errors burning a backup of vista. So I tried mounting it with alcohol120% and get a readme file that says
> This disc contains a “UDF” file system and requires an operating system
> that supports the ISO-13346 “UDF” file system specification.
never seen this before… probably why alcohol keeps bumming out around 1/2 way thru