partition manager

I have Windows XP on a 160gb NTFS drive all to itself... I want to split the drive into 2 80gb partitions but i do not want to lose my xp installation.... I dont really mind if XP is lost because i can restore a backup later but is there a free partition manager i could use as this is only a once off scenario and i dont want to buy partition magic or other software like that etc.
Thanks in advance...

This is able to shrink, but it has some limitations, so if it doesn't do anything on the first attempt, try entering a bigger size for the original partition until it works.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
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I have Windows XP on a 160gb NTFS drive all to itself... I want to split the drive into 2 80gb partitions but i do not want to lose my xp installation.... I dont really mind if XP is lost because i can restore a backup later but is there a free partition manager i could use as this is only a once off scenario and i dont want to buy partition magic or other software like that etc.
Thanks in advance...

Partition Logic is another good one.
http://visopsys.org/partlogic/
"Joshua" wrote:

I have Windows XP on a 160gb NTFS drive all to itself... I want to split the drive into 2 80gb partitions but i do not want to lose my xp installation.... I dont really mind if XP is lost because i can restore a backup later but is there a free partition manager i could use as this is only a once off scenario and i dont want to buy partition magic or other software like that etc.
Thanks in advance...

Thanks Droid and Mark...
I tried partion logic and it kept freezing when it was booting and
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

Partition Logic is another good one.
http://visopsys.org/partlogic/
"Joshua" wrote:
I have Windows XP on a 160gb NTFS drive all to itself... I want to split the drive into 2 80gb partitions but i do not want to lose my xp installation.... I dont really mind if XP is lost because i can restore a backup later but is there a free partition manager i could use as this is only a once off scenario and i dont want to buy partition magic or other software like that etc.
Thanks in advance...

I had the same problem when I tried it. I then ran chkdsk /f from the command line and I had several disc errors. Once I cleaned those up, it ran just fine.
"Joshua" wrote:

Thanks Droid and Mark...
I tried partion logic and it kept freezing when it was booting and