I want to make three HDD partitions on Satellite A200-1GB

Hi all,
Yesterday night I noticed that there is a small sound comes out when Hard disk is being read. The sound same as the Desktop Hard disk sound. In desktop HDD's that's normal.
I thought that Notebook's HDD doesn't sound like that even it has the same technology of Desktop HDDs.
Is that also normal thing?
The other thing is I thought to divide my second partition (D drive) in two partitions because I can have separate three partitions then.
If I do it using Disk management will it give any matters?
In desktop PC's I have done many operations on HDD's with Win XP but I have no experience on notebooks. is there any difference between desktops and notebooks running WXP?
I hope to divide my second partition (93 GB) in two as 45GB & 45GB.
Can anyone give idea about this and is any body have done this operation?

> Yesterday night I noticed that there is a small sound comes out when Hard disk is being read. The sound same as the Desktop Hard disk sound. In desktop HDD's that's normal. I thought that Notebook's HDD doesn't sound like that even it has the same technology of Desktop HDDs. Is that also normal thing?
My notebooks HDD makes a loud sound and since 2 years it has been running ok.
I presume its nothing serious due to the fact that the A200 is not an old series and the HDD is new.
>The other thing is I thought to divide my second partition (D drive) in two partitions because I can have separate three partitions then. If I do it using Disk management will it give any matters?
No everything should works. But I think XP OS is not able to create an HDD partition. You will have to use an 3rd party program like Partitions Magic 8 for example.
> In desktop PC's I have done many operations on HDD's with Win XP but I have no experience on notebooks. Is there any difference between desktops and notebooks running WXP?
No feel free to create an partition.
>I hope to divide my second partition (93 GB) in two as 45GB & 45GB.
>Can anyone give idea about this and is any body have done this operation?
Use the Partitions magic 8

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