how to partition hard drive

[caramba22242]

I'm trying to partition my hard drive and create a space for my photos and music. Microsofts help and support pages have left me stuck. It says to open computer management..then disk management.. This brings up 2 panes. The top shows Vol C with it's capacity and free space etc...and the bottom shows a "striped " window showing Disk 0 and in the striped area Vol C with size etc...Problem is The write up then tells me to right click an unallocated region of basic disk and select new partition etc..but I have right clicked everywhere in these two panes and don't get the option of create a new partition. What am i doing wrong. thank you in advanced

[fo3nix]

I think the windows partition tool will only partition a drive by erasing it too (i.e., it won't move the data you already have on there). To do this you'll need some other program, like Partition Magic.

[rojash]

Yes, the Windows tool allows you to partition a drive, but what you want to do is RE-partition a drive. You need something like this:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/ diskdirector/partitioning.html

Or try googling "Partitioning Software" for other (possibly free) products.

[OBonio]

When looking for Partioning Software, make sure they maintain data when resizing a partition (easier said than done!). A lot of repartitioning software will just trash your data! I think Partition Magic tries to maintain data when making a partition smaller.

[caramba22242]

Thanks guys