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de-partition harddrive
Name: john Date: April 22, 2002 at 00:45:59 Pacific
Comment:
How do i de-partition a harddrive it is a 4 gig and has 2 partition on it???
Name: Jennifer Date: April 22, 2002 at 04:51:24 Pacific
Reply:
Boot to a boot disk and run fdisk to repartition. Remember to backup all your data first.
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Response Number 2
Name: Tracey Date: April 22, 2002 at 05:05:50 Pacific
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If you want to preserve the existing data and programs, you will need a utility such as Partition Magic. You can use it to merge partitions without data loss.
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Response Number 3
Name: Maurice Woehrle Date: April 22, 2002 at 09:07:37 Pacific
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Tracey is correct about Partition magic. Very good program. He may have given the impression that you can just run the program. As anytime you are messing with any existing program, backup all pertinent data before doing anything. I have only ever had one failure with Partition Magic. I grabbed the computer to turn it to put a panel back on while it was running and hit the power off switch. Dahhhhh. But anything can happen so backup first unless you can do without what is there.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dave357 Date: April 22, 2002 at 21:51:07 Pacific
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If it is partitioned into 2-GB segments it is probably because it is FAT(16) instead of FAT32. If you are running any version of Windows prior to Win95B, you must keep the drive formatted as FAT16, which has this 2-GB size limit. If you are using Win95B or later, go ahead and repartiton it.
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