cannot do partitioning on my acer aspire 5100

hi there!!
I installed xp from my recovery disk on my new HD successfully
Now I want partition this disk...I did as I told using XP management tool and try to do partition in cmd using diskpart command and eventually I've got message "diskpart unable to create the specific partition "
maybe that's because I have home edition version of XP?

 

No, it is because you have insuficient rights; you should login as administrator but I strongly suggest to use a third party partition tool like paragon partition manager or acronis, or Hiren boot cd or even a linux boot disk.

 

Not enough information to judge about this. Apart from that, I am 99.9% sure this is not a permission problem.

The partitioning tools of the operating system are to be preferred. Especially old versions of 3rd party tools often cause trouble because of insufficient controller or even file system support.

Edit: The thread starter seems to love having answers shattered around the forum http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/534632-new-hard-drive-partitioning.html


Michael

 

sorry its my fault!