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Partition Problem in my hard drive
Name: Seylan Date: May 28, 1999 at 17:31:07 Pacific
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Hi, I just installed linux slackware using "fips program" to partition my hardrive. But i made a mistake when i did it. Now the problem is this: The first partition holding dos is 900 MB, after this space there is a 7GB unpartitioned space which can not be used at all now, and at the end of the drive linux is installed with the swap space. Both operating systems work fine. But the 7GB hard drive space is now useless. How can i add this 7 GB to my 900MB dos partition? Thanks for your help. Seylan.
You will have to re-partition your drive or get a program such as Partition Magic to fix your pronblem, you can maybe get a free trial on their homepage.
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Response Number 2
Name: SPENCER Date: November 15, 2000 at 07:51:08 Pacific
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I got a hand-me-down Toshiba Satilite laptop. A 810mb hard drive was installed and linux was used on it. Now that I have it, I want to use win95. I have erased everything on the drive and reinstalled dos and windows 3.1. When I go to install win95, scandisk saids that it can't read from the last cluster and that it is either not a lba partition or not partitioned right. Could linux partitioned the drive differently? How do I partition my drive to get win95 to install? Thankks for any information you can give me.
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