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changing drive partition
Name: kyetech Date: April 21, 2005 at 18:21:53 Pacific OS: XP-Pro CPU/Ram: pentIII/128 ram
Comment:
I need to know if a partition can be adjusted or changed without formatting the drive.
Name: jboy Date: April 21, 2005 at 18:55:16 Pacific
Reply:
DOS format has nothing at all to do with it - the DOS partition tool is fdisk, and no, it manages partitions destructively.
Partition Magic, Ranish Partition Manager, etc. etc.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Response Number 2
Name: kyetech Date: April 21, 2005 at 19:11:55 Pacific
Reply:
Well, I guess what i'm asking is that I have a drive that is stable and working, with a partition. In which it displays two hard drive in " My Computer" I want to know If i can keep wahtever's currently on that drive and change the partition.
Kye
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Response Number 3
Name: jboy Date: April 21, 2005 at 19:41:44 Pacific
Reply:
Can't say as I quite know what you mean - but if you're running WinXP, very little (if anything) to do with DOS.
Suggest you post in the appropriate forum.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: April 21, 2005 at 21:35:40 Pacific
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Reposted in WinXP - apparently the goal was to non destructively combine partitions, so (not surprisingly) the same software was recommended
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Response Number 5
Name: Mike Newcomb Date: April 23, 2005 at 04:14:59 Pacific
Reply:
If it is not the master partition (ie Drive c:), using ms-dos I believe it may be changed to a smaller one or ones if required, without losing the disc.
These are then be formatted, as drive (whatever drive letter allocated).
Good luck - Keep us posted.
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Response Number 6
Name: jboy Date: April 23, 2005 at 09:22:18 Pacific
Reply:
Fdisk does not support merging partitions - the only way to do that is to remove & recreate, hence the popularity of Partition Magic et al
At any rate, the OS in question is XP - no reason to involve DOS at all
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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