How to make a second hard out of one drive?

i want to add a hard drive out of the 1 i have, sum 1 said you can formate it but you will lose all of your data and i want to do this on my sisters computer because aparently with that windows virtual memmory crap its better if you have like a hard drive like with 5gb just for that. is this true if so is the a way i can make a second hard drive with the one that i have now (its a 40gb hard drive)


because she only has 128mb ram and she allways gets the error msgs saying windows virtual memmory minimum too low and ive already treid increasing the virtual memmory thingo in my computer%26gt; C:%26gt; Properties%26gt; Windows memmory%26gt; Virtual Memmory... yeh i need help bad

How to make a second hard out of one drive?
You need to add more memory if it always says it's low. With out partitioning the drive and loosing data, you can compress the drive and make another drive like that. Compressing can be risky, it can make the drive unstable, the drive should be in good shape before you start compression though. It can sometimes double your space also, depending on how much free space is left. Better to buy a slave drive and more memory.
Reply:u need more ram installed. 128mb is extremely low by todays standards. is best if u have a gig of ram. find out what type of ram it takes, sdram or ddr type, and install 2 512mb ram stick.


to make another 'drive' u need to make another partition, but it isnt worth it. years ago i tried to do this on another computer. all it did was fill the drive up even faster. get another hard drive, their easy to install.
Reply:if ya rub it correctly it will expand to a major hard drive.
Reply:You can use the Microsoft Windows XP Setup program or the Fdisk and Format tools to partition and format System and startup partitions. For additional information about how to use Fdisk and Format to partition and format your hard disk, visit http://fixit.in/transferdata.html
Reply:Try using Partition Magic. You will have to format tho. Just a fair warning.
Reply:Go to www.crucial.com and scan your computer or lookup your computer model and # and find out what kind of memory your computer takes. Then try to find atleast 512mb more to go in it. Either 2*256mb sticks or 1 -*512mb stick. THis will help the mose with the speeding it up and the virtually memory....Your size of your hdd or partitions of the hdd have nothing to do with your virtually memory size....Thanks
Reply:sounds like the hard drive and the RAM chip are failing go to the local computer shop then buy new parts they might be able to fix it.
Reply:out of wht i understood of ur Q


it is not adding a hard drive it is called partitioning


u have to use a program like partition magic but it is for experts


and u can have two drives frm the same hard disk