help for partitioning hard drive in windows 2000

[maplepecan]

Is there any way that I can partition hard drive in windows 2000?

I need to partition the hard drive for multi booting.

[FadedCrown]

You understand we are in the late 2010s, right?

[Crunchy Dragon]

If you can boot to a live Linux USB, you can partition the drive there.

 

That's probably the only safe way to do it.

[maplepecan]

5 hours ago, FadedCrown said:

You understand we are in the late 2010s, right?

I'm using an old computer

[dDave64]

I’m assuming you are running a board old enough that it may not work at all with USB booting.

 

In that case I would recommend getting something along the lines of Norton Partition Magic and burning the program to a CD. You should be able to boot to a CD just fine. You may even be able to find that for free on the Internet. I bought an official copy years ago though. Works like a charm on older hardware.

 

I used to use that program all the time back when I was using XP and 98SE so your Windows 2000 system would fall in the right era for that to likely work for you. Used on multiple IDE hard drives and a few times on older SATA drives.

[Crunchy Dragon]

-Moved to Storage Devices-

 

Just now, dDave64 said:

I’m assuming you are running a board old enough that it’s may not work with USB booting.

 

In that case I would recommend getting something along the lines of Norton Partition Magic and using a CD. You should be able to boot to a CD just fine.

I would imagine the process might be a little better with Linux, which you can also load onto a CD and boot to.

 

Thanks for reminding me about the lack of USB booting, that was a good catch

[maplepecan]

5 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

If you can boot to a live Linux USB, you can partition the drive there.

 

That's probably the only safe way to do it.

thanks

[maplepecan]

5 hours ago, dDave64 said:

I’m assuming you are running a board old enough that it may not work at all with USB booting.

 

In that case I would recommend getting something along the lines of Norton Partition Magic and burning the program to a CD. You should be able to boot to a CD just fine. You may even be able to find that for free on the Internet. I bought an official copy years ago though. Works like a charm on older hardware.

 

I used to use that program all the time back when I was using XP and 98SE so your Windows 2000 system would fall in the right era for that to likely work for you. Used on multiple IDE hard drives and a few times on older SATA drives.

thanks