I am trying to resize a partition on a 486 but I only have DOS 3.3 5.0 (upgrade) and 6.0 (upgrade). D3.3 will only set a certain size partition 32mb (I believe) but I want to use the maximum amount on the HDD. Since I only have upgrades, I have to install D3.3 first. I can't change the primary partition without losing everything. Is there a program to resize the partition the will fit on a 3.5 floppy. The computer has a cd-rom drive, but it is not booting at startup. That will be my next project to rewrite the autoexec, config.sys files. ghro

http://www.zeleps.com/download.html Booting from CDROM is controlled by the BIOS, therefore it is O/S independent, configuring the autoexec/config will not alter that fact one iota! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Tor...

Fips.exe is a small DOS program which will work with DOS 3.0 and above. It will reduce an existing DOS primary partition to free up space for other partition(s) on a hard drive. It might be able to successfully enlarge a partition as well, but you'd have to experiment with that. It's free. Partition Magic works off a boot floppy, or at least the version I have does(brought 8-9 years ago).

Thanks I will try to locate those programs. I'm not really trying to boot from the CD rom. Before I removed the previous partition, the CD worked perfectly. The bios should not have been effected with the change in partition. The drivers etc., are not being loaded at startup and that is what I need to rewrite. ghro

It's very unlikely a 486 bios will have the ability to boot from the cdrom. However, once the cdrom driver is loaded in config.sys and mscdex.exe is run from autoexec.bat the OS will have access to the cdrom. I don't think you need to start with 3.3 and then do the upgrades. Check #3 and #4 here: http://www.computing.net/answers/do... If you're going to use 6.0 be sure you don't use its drive compression utility as there were problems with it. The size of the drive is another consideration. Dos 6 should see up to 2 gig but your 486 bios will probably only see up to about 500 meg.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I found a copy of fips.exe and also saw the entries noted in #3 & #4. Very interesting. I didn't know that was possible. I'll let you know how it turns out. ghro

I just wanted to update everyone. I got a copy of Ranish Partition Manager after reading some of the other posts. Worked like a charm and fits on a 3.5 floppy. It probably works for all OSs. I've included it on all my startup disks. Again, thanks for all the assistance. ghro