>Perhaps there are some incompatibities with version 6. Other options:
>- put the new drive as a slave into a Windows 2000 system, then parition it
>- use Gparted (download, burn to a CD, the boot the computer and resize the partition)
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm
>- save yourself some time and buy a hard drive to act as your D drive
> http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=15801&vpn=HD160JJ&manufacture=Samsung

That seems quite complicated. I always had a D: drive since multiple versions of Windows. Does this mean with XP this is no longer easily applicable?