There is a commercial software that claims to be able to partition and not lose data, but I do not remember its name. But to be safe, I'd back up first <g>. Best bet is to purchase a second HD, cheap enough these days, and partition it. Move the data to the partitioned drive and THEN partition the original drive. On May 23, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Kevin Willis wrote: > I am interested in partitioning my 120 GB hard drive into 2 60 GB > drives. I currently have about 40 GB of data on it. If I were to > defragment the drive, would I then be able to partition it without > losing my data? Regards, Wayne Clodfelter wayne at troutnc.com