Platinum Edition Using® Microsoft® Windows® XP

Disk Management

Garnering a full understanding of these exciting and powerful Windows XP disk management options is crucial before you begin tinkering, obviously. Unfortunately, even after you've mastered the meaning of the new terms, mentally churned through the ramifications of your choices, and are ready to take a plunge or two, you'll have to figure out how to execute those plans. Even if you have experimented with hard disks, older DOS and Windows operating systems, third-party apps such as Partition Magic, and so on, you should still prepare yourself to be a bit confused at first.

Windows XP essentially takes the disk management methods first introduced in Windows 2000 and then improves upon them. Thus, your primary means of performing ...